Kalle Ljung’s Antarctica Film: A Sailing Journey Seen from Above
Antarctica becomes easier to imagine when the camera gives you something to measure it against: a boat, a stretch of open water, the edge o...
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The Sicamous Snowmobile Avalanche Rescue: What the Video Records
The most striking part of this avalanche story is how quickly a ride becomes a rescue. The account accompanying the video describes a snowm...
Marcel Landry’s Snow Tunnel to His Car in Summerside
At the end of this snow tunnel was something wonderfully ordinary: a car. After heavy snowfall in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Marcel ...
Thomas Tourral’s French Alps: Lakes, Passes and Evening Light
Thomas Tourral’s French Alps photographs make a good case for looking beyond the highest summit. A band of autumn trees, two walkers on a g...
Chandratal: The Moon Lake in Lahaul and Spiti
Chandratal’s blue water feels especially vivid against the brown, sparsely vegetated mountains around it. Move closer to the shore and the ...
Svalbard: Arctic Seasons, Settlements and Coastal Landscapes
Svalbard is often pictured as an endless white landscape. This gallery tells a more varied story: green lower slopes, colourful buildings, ...
The Cambrian in Adelboden: Mountain Views, Spa Time and a Better-Planned Stay
In this article The photograph that makes you stop What the spa offers Adelboden is the destination to enter in the journey planner Would yo...
Sam Smith’s Illinois Tornado Video: The April 2015 Storm in Context
A highway journey became a frightening encounter with severe weather on 9 April 2015. Sam Smith, travelling on business, recorded a tornado...
Skiing a Volcanic Slope: The Snow-Free Archive Film
Skis and snow are such a familiar pairing that this dark volcanic slope makes you look twice. The archive clip follows skiers moving over l...
The Aleutian Islands: Volcanoes, Communities and Pacific History
A surf break beneath a snowy volcano is an arresting introduction to the Aleutian Islands. Look beyond that first image, though, and there ...
Ruth Glacier and the Great Gorge: Ice in the Alaska Range
From a distance, the Ruth Glacier looks almost like a pale road through the Alaska Range. Closer views undo that impression: its surface is...
A Red Fox Hunting Under Snow: Hearing, Pouncing and a Magnetic Hypothesis
Before the spectacular dive comes a quieter moment. A red fox pauses above the snow, ears alert, concentrating on a world hidden below the ...
Léo Taillefer’s Line of the Winter: A 2015 Ski Film
A first-person ski film gives you a peculiar role: you are close enough to see the ski tips, but someone else is making every decision. Léo...
Chilean Patagonia: Fjords, Channels and Inland Mountain Views
Water gives southern Chile a wonderfully complicated outline. Inlets reach between mountains, islands divide passages, and glaciers meet a ...
Gros Ventre River, Wyoming: River Bends and Mountain Views
The Gros Ventre River’s autumn photographs are full of small rewards: a bright line of trees, a curve in the channel, sunlight catching the...
Hamnøy, Lofoten: Fishing Cabins Beneath the Mountains
Hamnøy’s red cabins seem almost toy-sized beneath the mountain behind them. That contrast is the heart of its best-known view: small, brigh...