Born Wild: Three Mothers Sharing Outdoor Life with Their Children
The most inviting photograph in this family-adventure collection might be the breakfast. Or the toy truck. Or a child painting beside the c...
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Climbing Stories & Mountain Adventures
Explore mountain climbing stories, alpine adventures and photography of remarkable peaks. Browse related collections on Everest and the Himalayas, or follow hiking stories through more of the world's mountain landscapes.
The Alpine Shelter below Skuta: A 2015 Building Story
A warm window can change an entire mountain photograph. Below Skuta in Slovenia’s Kamnik–Savinja Alps, an angular shelter sits among pale r...
Haffner Creek: Paul Zizka’s Ice-Climbing Photographs
The climber is a tiny figure in a pool of blue light. Above, the canyon walls narrow towards the stars; below, the ice becomes a curtain of...
The Dawn Wall: Caldwell and Jorgeson’s 2015 Free Ascent
From the valley, the climbers are barely visible. On the wall, progress can depend on a piece of granite small enough to fit beneath a fing...
People in the Mont Blanc Massif: Alpine Photography’s Collection
A small patch of bright clothing can change an entire mountain photograph. In this Alpine Photography collection, climbers and campers prov...
Alex Honnold and Half Dome: Understanding Yosemite’s Climbing Images
Half Dome’s profile is familiar, but a photograph taken beside a climber reveals a very different scale. Small features in the granite beco...
Will Gadd’s Ice-Climbing Journey on Kilimanjaro
The ice looks almost architectural: a pale wall rising from dark, exposed ground, with a climber small against its face. Christian Pondella...
Caldwell and Jorgeson on the Dawn Wall: What Free Climbing Means
Some of the most revealing Dawn Wall photographs are the quiet ones. A hanging camp, a taped hand or a small circle of headlamp light shows...
Robert Bösch’s Mammut Photographs: People Giving Mountains Scale
Red jackets draw the eye across enormous expanses of rock and snow in Robert Bösch's photographs for Mammut. Sometimes the people form ...
The Matterhorn Lit in Red: A Photograph with 150 Years of History
A trail of red points climbs the dark outline of the Matterhorn. The lights make a route visible in a way that a daytime photograph cannot, ...
The Melakwa Lake Helicopter Rescue: A Team at Work
The hiker has very little room to move. In this rescue recording, the rock face is the central fact: the person is in terrain where continu...
The Mountain Road to Kishtwar Kailash: Fowler and Ramsden’s Approach
The rock comes close to the vehicle, while the valley opens far below the road. This journey-to-basecamp sequence shows a part of an expedi...
Thirty Photographs at Height: Perspective, Scale and the People Behind the Images
A tiny climber against a wall of rock and a person close to a rooftop edge create different sensations of height. This collection brings su...
Cory Richards on Photography, Survival and Finding a Direction
A frost-covered face can tell a mountain story that a summit photograph cannot. In A Tribute to Discomfort, Cory Richards speaks about the ...
Millie and Craig Armstrong: A Cat’s Place in a Climber’s Travels
Millie’s outdoor adventures with Craig Armstrong offer a cat-sized perspective on a climbing trip. The archive’s photographs are as much ab...
Sleeping on a Big Wall: Portaledges and the Scale of a Climb
A place to eat and sleep takes on a different meaning halfway up a rock wall. In this gallery, climbers and their equipment occupy small sp...
John All’s Himalayan Crevasse Fall: A Recorded Survival Account
John All's camera does not record a scenic Himalayan panorama. It records the close walls of a crevasse and a badly injured researcher ...
Tommy and Becca Caldwell: Everyday Life on a Portaledge
Corey Rich’s photographs of Tommy and Becca Caldwell bring familiar routines into an unfamiliar place. Eating, reading and resting happen o...
Black Bears on Santa Elena Canyon’s Wall: A Kayaker’s Video
A bear and cub moving across a canyon wall make a remarkable natural climbing sequence. The archive identifies the setting as Santa Elena C...
Tim Emmett and Dawn Glanc on Iceland’s Blue Glacier Ice
Tim Emmett and Dawn Glanc feature in this Icelandic ice-climbing archive, where blue ice replaces the rock usually associated with a climbi...