Everest Base Camp Wedding: Ashley and James’s Trek in Photographs
On 16 March 2017, Ashley and James exchanged vows and rings at Everest Base Camp, 5,364 metres up in Nepal’s Khumbu region, with the Khumbu...
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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: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
Frozen Lake Baikal: Kristina Makeeva’s Photos of Cracks, Bubbles and Ice
White cracks branch across deep blue ice, and pale bubbles hang frozen beneath the surface like scattered coins. Photographer Kristina Makee...
Snow Leopard Encounter in Gulmarg: Skiers, Camouflage and the Real Story
In February 2016, a group of skiers in Gulmarg, Kashmir, came within a few metres of one of the world’s most elusive big cats. Their guide t...
Nepal after the 2015 Earthquake: Giang Hoang's Himalayan Photo Essay
Travel photographer Giang Hoang visited Nepal before, during and after the devastating earthquake of April 2015. In January 2016 he publish...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
Vera Kovaleva Feeds Kartal’s Street Cats in Snowy Istanbul
Every day of a snowy Istanbul winter, cats came running along narrow paths cut through the drifts to meet one woman carrying food. A video ...
19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
Marilyn Monroe Snow Portrait in Changchun, China: Art Made by Shovel
When the first heavy snow of December 2015 covered a university football field in Changchun, in north-east China, a group of students picke...
Kyrgyzstan on Skis: Zahariz Khuzaimah’s 400 km Winter Trek in the Tien Shan
A lone figure leans into the harness of a loaded sledge, a thin line of tracks behind him across a white plain. Malaysian filmmaker and pho...
Winter in Mongolia: Dheera Venkatraman’s Photos of Steppe, Ice and Nomads
Mongolia in winter is a land of frozen steppe, ice sculptures and nomadic camps running on solar power. Photographer Dheera Venkatraman tra...
Everest Base Camp Trek in Photos: Lukla to Kala Patthar, Stage by Stage
The trek to Everest Base Camp climbs from the tiny airstrip at Lukla, 2,846 metres up in Nepal’s Khumbu region, to Everest Base Camp at 5,36...
Chandratal Lake: Moon Lake of Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh
Chandratal, the Moon Lake, lies at about 4,300 metres in the upper Chandra valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. Its deep blue water, framed by...
Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Volcanoes, Climate, Unangan People and WWII
The Aleutian Islands sweep about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) west from the Alaska Peninsula towards Kamchatka, separating the North Pacific from ...
Tianmen Mountain in Winter: Heaven’s Gate, Glass Walkways and 99 Bends
Tianmen Mountain’s great natural arch looks like a window cut into the sky. Around it, glass-floored paths cling to sheer cliffs and a road ...
Fox Grom’s Siberian Huskies on a Mirror-Like Frozen Lake in Murmansk
Russian photographer Fox Grom found a scene that looks like a trick: his Siberian huskies trotting across a frozen lake that reflects the c...
The Himalayas from 20,000 ft: TGR's Aerial Film of Everest and Lhotse
In March 2015 Teton Gravity Research released The Himalayas from 20,000 ft. , a short film of ultra-HD aerial footage of Mount Everest, Ama...
Tadami Line in Winter: Japan's Scenic Railway along the Tadami River
Few railways in Japan are photographed as often as the JR Tadami Line. In winter its small trains cross steel bridges over the dark, mirror-...
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Seas: Baikal, Abraham Lake and Frost Flowers
When water freezes, it can record its own story: methane bubbles stacked like coins under the surface, turquoise slabs pushed up by the win...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: 15 Snowy Places from Banff to Japan
Snow changes a place more than any other weather. A footbridge in New York, a thatched village in Japan, a turquoise lake in the Canadian R...