He was born in San Francisco in 1902 No, he was not a good students He was 14 when he first saw Yosemite It took him and his family 2 days to get to Yosemite His father gave him his first camera and it was a Kodak 1 Brownie Box He hiked with the Sierra Club FDR was the president Monlith, the half face dome Nearly 70 years old A section of the Sierra Nevada Mountains were named after him