Born in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1930,
Tom Abercrombie attended St. Paul's Macalester College, majoring in art and
journalism. He served as staff photographer for one year at North Dakota'sFargo Forum, followed by
three years at Wisconsin's Milwaukee Journal.
In 1955 Abercrombie joined the National
Geographic Society's Photography Division and was promoted to its foreign
editorial staff just one year later. During his 38 years with the Society, he
photographed and wrote 43 articles for National Geographic magazine. He also produced films on
the 1962 revolution in Yemen and the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Abercrombie's years at National
Geographic were filled with a number of professional as well as personal
highlights. In 1957 he became the first correspondent to reach the geographic
South Pole. In 1965 he discovered the 6,000-pound (2,700-kilogram) Wabar meteorite
in the Arabian Desert. In 1974 the Overseas Press Club honored him for the Best
Overseas Reporting for a Magazine. And in 1978 the Royal Danish Yacht Club
presented him with the Baltic Cup.
Six years later, Abercrombie charted the
unexplored frankincense caravan routes across South Arabia. And in the 1991 National
Geographic article
"Ibn Battuta: Prince of Travelers," he wrote about the year he spent
traveling through 35 countries—from Morocco to China—in the footsteps of the
14th-century Arab explorer.
Retiring from National Geographic in
1994, Abercrombie became an in-demand lecturer and continued writing as a
freelancer. He died at the age of 75 in 2006. photography.nationalgeographic
All images © Tom J.Abercrombie/National
Geographic
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