Okay, here’s another one of my more famous shots (to my friends, anyway); and, yes, it’s the shot used for the “music” button on the home page. I call it the John Denver shot. My first reaction upon seeing it was: if I ever record an album of John Denver songs, this will be the cover. Trek member Susan Read took the picture at the first major mountain pass of the Manaslu trek, Rupina La (15,600’). My pose was meant as a joke; I can’t really play guitar with gloves on. The joke got funnier (to me, anyway) when I got the slide back and saw that the mist covering the mountains is so perfect, it doesn’t even look real; it looks like a backdrop from some record company’s art department. I spent $4000 to go on a trek in Nepal, just to get a picture of myself in the mountains that looks totally staged. I love it.

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