Smokejumpers by Mike McMillan

Three jumpers run a section of fireline into rock bluffs before moving uphill on a Nevada fire in 1999. Mike McMillan spotfireimages.com

Murry A. Taylor has been a smokejumper since 1965. He divides his time between Alaska and northern California. Jumping Fire is his first book. Taylor's e-mail address is: murrytay@sisqtel.net • All photographs by Mike McMillan/Spotfire Images • Site by Visual Contact