Photographer, Author. He was an award winning photographer and writer for "National Geographic Magazine" for nearly four decades. He began his career in neighboring North Dakota working for the "Fargo Forum" in 1952 and the "Milwaukee Journal" in 1953 before joining the "National Geographic" magazine as a free-lance photographer in 1956. He was named National News Photographer of the year in 1954 and Magazine Photographer of the year in 1959. He traveled extensively around the world, fluent in several languages including German, Spanish, French and Arabic. His numerous photographic assignments touched every continent including the wilderness of Alaska, Antarctica, Africa, the Himalayas, the Swiss Alps and the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. He was an accomplished underwater photographer, diving with famed oceanographer and film maker Jacques Cousteau. He survived several close death encounters while working for the magazine including a plane crash while covering a civil war in Yemen and a potential near fatal 1,000 foot fall while trekking through the mountains of Afghanistan. He was the subject of the 2004 documentary "White Tiger: The Adventures of Thomas J. Abercrombie." He died following complications from open heart surgery at the age of 75.
Photographer, Author. He was an award winning photographer and writer for "National Geographic Magazine" for nearly four decades. He began his career in neighboring North Dakota working for the "Fargo Forum" in 1952 and the "Milwaukee Journal" in 1953 before joining the "National Geographic" magazine as a free-lance photographer in 1956. He was named National News Photographer of the year in 1954 and Magazine Photographer of the year in 1959. He traveled extensively around the world, fluent in several languages including German, Spanish, French and Arabic. His numerous photographic assignments touched every continent including the wilderness of Alaska, Antarctica, Africa, the Himalayas, the Swiss Alps and the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. He was an accomplished underwater photographer, diving with famed oceanographer and film maker Jacques Cousteau. He survived several close death encounters while working for the magazine including a plane crash while covering a civil war in Yemen and a potential near fatal 1,000 foot fall while trekking through the mountains of Afghanistan. He was the subject of the 2004 documentary "White Tiger: The Adventures of Thomas J. Abercrombie." He died following complications from open heart surgery at the age of 75.
Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.
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