Teewinot: Many Pinnacles Story Behind the Print
Jun 23rd 2025
Where the Peaks Rise and the Stories Endure
Over the years, I’ve been blessed by having friendships with many Jackson Hole legends. One of them was mountaineer Glen Exum, who lived just across the road from me inside the boundary of Grand Teton National Park. We shared many a morning and evening with the Tetons rising above us. Accomplished as an American climber but respected worldwide, Glen is synonymous with the Tetons and there remains a climbing school he co-founded that bears his name.
As I write these words, reflecting on this new black and white print celebrating the Teton peak, Teewinot, I am holding Glen’s sun-worn Swiss climbing hat, a Tirolerhut, in my hands, which he gave me in the last years of his life and wore on many ascents.
Metal Print
The line of vaulting summits in the Tetons is impressive on any given day, but when the pinnacles are shrouded in the atmospheric effects of weather—thunderclouds perhaps, maybe a winter storm blowing in, or autumn fog lifting skyward from the Snake River below—they assume heightened ethereal majesty. It’s not difficult to imagine them being a citadel inhabited by the gods.
Museum Mounted Print
I titled this photograph, “Teewinot: Many Pinnacles” in honor of the indigenous Shoshone place name for this magnificent peak. Although Glen Exum is closely associated with pioneering a route up the Grand Teton, he admired the glacially sculpted beauty of 12,330-foot Teewinot and its jagged summit spires. Welcoming, Glen said, its difficulty should never be underestimated. More than anything, this image is an homage to the moody majesty of these mountains that cast a spell of enchantment on all who gaze upon them.
Canvas Wrapped
Framed Print
There are mountains—and then there are the Tetons.
Each time I look toward Teewinot, I see not only glacial beauty, but memories of those who walked among them with reverence and awe. This mountain range has has captivated me for decades.
Framed Print
“I hope this new image brings you the same sense of wonder that Glen and I felt while watching the Tetons rise with the morning light.”