Rushing Alpine Torrent Through Polished Granite Gorge (1927)

A mountain torrent plunging through polished granite boulders and narrow rock walls surrounded by dense evergreens. — Rushing Alpine Torrent Through Polished Granite Gorge (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Deep in the rugged backcountry of Yosemite, Donald A. Hall Sr. documented this powerful mountain torrent carving through a deeply incised granite chasm. The white water surges violently through a narrow sluice of water-smoothed glacial boulders, flanked by sheer rock buttresses and old-growth firs, illustrating Hall's ongoing photographic study of high-velocity fluid dynamics and the raw hydrological power of Sierra Nevada waterways.