North Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park, California, 1992 This photograph was taken from a small lake below the Devil's Crags in the Black Divide. I had seen this composition on an August backpack trip. In September I hiked in 26 miles, 33 days later, to take this photograph. I also wanted to finish a traverse of the Devil's Crags that I had started on the previous visit. My friends Danny Whitemore, Bob McGavren and I arrived at our camp and a storm had started to move over the Sierra. I didn't have much photographically to think about as I knew exactly where my tripod needed to be positioned. I could not have imagined a more perfect lighting. A beam of setting sun hit the North Palisade and the sky illuminated the lake and surroundings beautifully. My exposure was 12 seconds long as f32. We managed to traverse the loose and extremely dangerous Devil's Crags. The ascents made on this and the August trip were the second ascent of many of the Crags. Our ascents taking place fully sixty years after the first ascents. The climbing involved difficult (5,10) climbing and overhanging rappels from some very shaky anchors. After ten days in the region a fall snowstorm chased us home.