During his distinguished career at National Geographic, Bill Garrett regularly went the extra mile to achieve the desired photograph. He and Walter Cronkite spent three hours on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Mir-I submersible. He traveled to Southeast Asia and back 15 times–hanging from helicopters, dodging bullets and grenades–to document the Vietnam War and was one of the first reporters ever to be allowed access to the Cambodian Killing Fields. He was imprisoned twice for photographing people. And he sipped a Coke nose-to-nose and straw-to-straw with a friendly female gorilla named Koko.