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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Discover photography of snow, mountains and the natural world, from northern lights to frozen landscapes and dramatic skies. Browse the images and their stories, then explore the subjects and places that catch your eye.
Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: How Fog Fills the Canyon in Winter
On rare winter mornings the Grand Canyon disappears. Cold, saturated air fills the gorge with a sea of white cloud, and the buttes and templ...
Northern Lights Proposal in Lofoten: Dale Sharpe and Karlie Russell
Australian landscape photographers Dale Sharpe and Karlie Russell had watched the northern lights together around 30 times. On a winter tri...
Ferryland Iceberg 2017: The 150-Foot Giant off Newfoundland
In April 2017, the small fishing town of Ferryland on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula woke up to a new neighbour: an iceberg estimated ...
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...
Svalbard Glaciers Then and Now: Christian Åslund’s Repeat Photographs
The mountains in each pair of pictures are the same. The ice is not. In 2002 the Swedish photographer Christian Åslund travelled to Svalbar...
30 Creative Snowmen: Funny Ideas, Snow Animals and Tips for Building
A carrot nose, two coal eyes and a scarf are where most snowmen begin. Then someone gives theirs a phone, turns it upside down or builds a ...
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 in the Sahara: Karim Bouchetata's Aïn Séfra Photos, December 2016
On 19 December 2016, snow fell on the orange dunes outside Aïn Séfra, a town in northwestern Algeria sometimes called the "gateway to ...
Nature House in Arctic Norway: A Cob Home Inside a Glass Geodesic Dome
On the island of Sandhornøya in northern Norway, north of the Arctic Circle, a family lives in a cob house wrapped inside a glass geodesic ...
Wolf-Shaped Northern Lights: Marja-Terttu Karlsson’s Pajala Photograph
First you see the green sweep of the northern lights. Then a pointed muzzle, an arched back and what looks remarkably like a wolf bounding a...
Vadim Trunov’s Winter Squirrel Photos: Snowballs, Cameras and Pine Cones
A squirrel peers over a camera as if checking the shot. Another lifts a snowball over its head. Two more stretch up towards a flying pine co...
David Burdeny’s Mercators Projection: A Tabular Iceberg in the Weddell Sea
Pale sky, a sheer white wall of ice, silvery water and a block of deep shadow: Canadian photographer David Burdeny’s Mercators Projection, ...
Simon Beck Snow Art: How He Walks Giant Snowshoe Drawings in the Alps
British artist Simon Beck makes some of the largest drawings in the world, and he makes them with nothing but snowshoes, a compass and his ...
Inari Northern Lights Time-Lapse by Tomi Rantanen, Finnish Lapland
A small boat sits on a dark lake while green and violet curtains of light ripple overhead. Finnish photographer Tomi Rantanen spent the aut...
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...
Milky Way and Northern Lights Over Loch More: Winiarczyk’s Time-Lapse
Maciej Winiarczyk had set up his camera on the banks of Loch More in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, to film a time-lapse of the Mi...
Martina Bisaz’s Switzerland: Alpine Lakes, an Orange VW Bus and Photo Tips
Turquoise lakes under frosted trees, an orange VW bus on a mountain pass, the Matterhorn glowing pink in a tiny pool: these photographs of S...
Finnish Night Sky Photography: Joni Niemelä’s Moonlight and Star Trails
Finnish photographer Joni Niemelä photographed the night sky over rural Finland between 2011 and 2016, most of it in the region of Southern...
Andy Lee’s Patagonia Dreaming: Infrared Photos of Chile’s Mountains
Granite towers wrapped in ribbon-like cloud, horses grazing under vast rock walls and lakes the colour of ink: UK-based photographer Andy L...