Canadian photographer Pat Morrow has travelled the globe in pursuit of adventure over the past 40 years. Along the way, he:
- became the 132nd person to summit Mount Everest,
- set the standard for climbing the highest mountain on each continent (AKA The Seven Summits) and,
- won more than a dozen national awards for his photos and videography.
Recently, Pat launched a new adventure by collaborating on a stunning iBook about Mount Everest with fellow mountaineer Sharon Wood and me. (I’ve been a friend of Pat’s since our earliest magazine days when I was at Canadian Geographic and he was a rookie freelance photographer.)
The result — Everest: High Expectations — is a beautiful iBook especially produced for Apple’s iPad. It’s loaded with 145 photographs as well as a half dozen video and audio clips. And also 50,000 words.
Here are 8 reasons why we embraced the concept of the new “coffee tablet” book.
- The iPad’s Hi-Def retina display gives photographs an almost Continue reading