Ashley and James’s Everest Base Camp Wedding: The Journey in Photographs
A wedding dress, hiking boots and a glacier stretching into the distance: Ashley and James brought a very different kind of wedding album h...
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Asia: Mountains, Snow & Nature Stories
Explore mountain landscapes, snow and nature stories across Asia. Browse Himalayan peaks and destinations including Nepal, Japan and China, with links to more photography and outdoor adventures in the archive.
Northern Lights Destinations: Places, Conditions and Different Ways to Experience the Sky
There is a lovely moment on an aurora night when everyone stops checking their phone and simply looks up. Choosing where to travel can help...
Kristina Makeeva’s Frozen Lake Baikal: Ice Patterns, Reflections and Scale
White cracks run across deep blue ice like branches, while bubbles seem to hang beneath the surface. In Kristina Makeeva’s photographs of f...
The Gulmarg Snow Leopard Encounter: What the Trip Account Clarified
A shape in the snow suddenly became a very memorable part of a ski day in Gulmarg. The 2016 footage shows an unexpected encounter with a sn...
Nepal Before and After the 2015 Earthquake: A Traveller’s Photo Essay
A white summit against a blue sky is an easy image to remember. This Nepal gallery has plenty of those, but its quieter photographs deserve...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Transform Ordinary Lights
A row of lights seems to have stretched straight up from a snowy neighbourhood. Blue, yellow and white columns hang above the roofs, as tho...
Feeding Community Cats in a Snowy Istanbul Neighbourhood
The cats appear one after another along a narrow route through the snow. A woman carries food between the white banks, and the scene fills ...
Nineteen Winter Landscapes: Forests, Towns and Mountain Views Around the World
A snowy landscape does not need to be empty or colourless. In this selection, a blue house takes centre stage, a red jacket marks a bridge ...
Marilyn Monroe Drawn in Snow: An Overhead Portrait in Changchun
From close by, it is a collection of cleared patches in snow. From above, Marilyn Monroe looks back. The large portrait made on a universit...
Zahariz Khuzaimah’s Winter Journey Through Kyrgyzstan
A traveller and a sled make a narrow line across a broad field of snow. Later, a small tent glows under the stars. Zahariz Khuzaimah’s wint...
Dheera Venkatraman’s Winter Mongolia: Landscapes and Everyday Life
A railway line crosses snowy hills. Basketball hoops stand over an empty white court. A child looks out from an ice arch. Dheera Venkatrama...
Freya’s Everest Base Camp Trek: The Full Photographic Journey
The arrival photograph at Everest Base Camp is memorable, but Freya’s collection is more interesting because it includes the way there: car...
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 ...
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 ...
Tianmen Mountain: Heaven’s Gate, Cliff Walkways and Winter Views
Tianmen Mountain’s great natural arch looks like an opening cut into the sky. Around it, paths follow steep cliffs and a road folds back on...
Fox Grom’s Huskies on a Mirror-Like Arctic Lake
At first glance, Fox Grom’s huskies seem to be standing between two skies. The clouds continue below their paws, and the horizon is so quie...
Teton Gravity Research’s Aerial Film of Everest, Ama Dablam and Lhotse
Aerial mountain footage can change the way a familiar summit looks. Ridges that overlap from the ground separate into layers, and a steep f...
Tadami River and Railway: Japan’s Mountain Landscape in Winter
A small railway bridge, a still river and a forest covered in snow: the Tadami Line’s photographs have a wonderfully simple structure. The ...
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Sea-Ice Scenes: Patterns, Bubbles and Blue Ice
Winter water can look like a collection of different materials: glass plates, pale bubbles, tiny flowers and long white threads. The pleasu...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: Fifteen Snow-Covered Settings
Winter does not have one mood. It can be bright and playful around a blue house, quiet beside a forest path or full of movement along an un...