Amtrak Train Hits Snow at Rhinecliff: Nick Colvin’s Slow-Motion Video
A southbound Amtrak train sweeps into Rhinecliff station, New York, and meets a track buried under fresh snow. In Nick Colvin’s slow-motion...
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Moose Rescued from Lake Ice in Sweden: Skaters Chop a Path to Shore
A winter skating trip in Sweden turned into a rescue when a group of skaters found a moose trapped in a hole in the lake ice. The animal had...
The Viral Penguin Fight: Magellanic Penguins, Pair Bonds and Nest Rivals
In November 2016, a short clip from Nat Geo Wild's series Animal Fight Night became one of the most shared animal videos of the year. I...
Gimmelwald Cat Guides an Injured Hiker Down a Swiss Alps Trail
A hiker with a sprained ankle, a closed path above Gimmelwald and a black-and-white cat that kept walking ahead and looking back: in August...
How an Igloo Keeps You Warm: Snow Insulation, Cold Traps and Inuit Design
Outside, the air can fall to −45 °C. Inside a well-built igloo warmed by nothing more than the people sleeping in it, the temperature can s...
Oeschinensee Mountain Coaster: A Summer Toboggan Ride above Kandersteg
A shining metal track curves across green Alpine meadows, and the peaks of the Bernese Oberland fill the horizon. Brice Milleson’s point-of...
Figure Skating on a Frozen Mountain Lake: Katrina Lazzarotto in BC
A skater glides across black, glassy ice while snow-covered peaks rise all around and repeat themselves in the reflection. In early 2016 he...
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 ...
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...
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 3: La Clusaz Ski Film, 2016
Ski tips, a snowy approach and a dark opening in the rock straight ahead: that is how French freeskier Candide Thovex pulls viewers into On...
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...
Lake Superior Ice Stacking: Glassy Ice Plates at Duluth’s Brighton Beach
Lake Superior can sound like a cupboard full of breaking glass when its ice starts to move. On 13 February 2016 Dawn M. LaPointe of Radiant...
Boston Street Skiing: Clayton Vila and Cam Riley in the Record 2015 Winter
In the winter of 2015 Boston was buried under the heaviest snow in its recorded history, and two young skiers treated the city as a terrain...
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...
Sloan Henderson: The 14-Month-Old Snowboarder of Park City, Utah
Sloan Henderson was 14 months old, had only just learned to walk, and was already riding a snowboard. In January 2016 her parents filmed he...
Horacio Llorens Paramotors Beneath the Northern Lights in Tromsø
Spanish paraglider Horacio Llorens has flown over deserts, mountains and the Himalayas, but in January 2016 he took his wing somewhere new: ...
Finn’s Snow Maze: A Puppy’s Backyard Paths After the 2016 Blizzard
For a small dog, a foot of fresh snow turns the garden into a wall. When that much fell on Great Neck, New York, in January 2016, Finn’s ow...
Frozen Soap Bubbles: ZALUSKArt’s −15 °C Film and the Snow-Globe Effect
A clear soap bubble rests on fresh snow. Within seconds, feathery ice crystals appear on its skin, swirl around the sphere and knit together...
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 ...
Casey Neistat Snowboarding New York: The 2016 Blizzard Film
On January 23, 2016, New York City was buried under the deepest snowfall in its recorded history, and its roads were closed to traffic. The...