Photography
Frost photographed many of his first ascents. Glen Denny is himself a mountaineering photographer and author of the book Yosemite in the Sixties. Denny wrote of Frost's photographic achievements: "Most of the climbing photos you see now are prearranged setups for the camera on much-traveled routes. The impressive thing about Frost is that his classic images were seen, and photographed, during major first ascents. In those awesome situations he led, cleaned, hauled, day after day and--somehow--used his camera with the acuity of a Cartier-Bresson strolling about a piazza. Extremes of heat and cold, storm and high altitude, fear and exhaustion . . . it didn't matter. He didn't seem to feel the pressure."
Several of Frost's photos were published in Royal Robbins' book Advanced Rockcraft in 1973. Frost is also an ice climber, and contributed dozens of photographs to Yvon Chouinard's book Climbing Ice. Nine of his photographs appeared in the book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. Many of his photos appeared in Pat Ament's Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age.
In 1979, he co-founded Chimera Photographic Lighting with Gary Regester. The company, based in Boulder, CO, manufactures lighting products for photography and filming.
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