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  • The North Face of Great Sail Peak glows in the midnight sun above purple saxifrage flowers in the Stewart Valley, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
    BI 6741.jpg
  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
    AA 0912.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0819.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Meredith Wiltsie (MR) in Annapurna Sanctuary, below South Face of 8,091 meter (26,545') Annapurna I, world's 10th highest peak .
    AA 0816.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0714.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0711.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0918.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0819.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0714.jpg
  • The southwest face of El Capitan towers above trees and rising fog.
    SN 1860.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Fenris Mountains.  North face of 2931m Ulvetanna (in sun).  2721m Kinntanna on left. Sigyn Glacier bkg.
    QM 1155.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Fenris Mountains. North face of 2931m Ulvetanna.
    QM 1103.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. North face of Great Sail Peak glows in midnight sun, Stewart Valley.
    BI 6739.jpg
  • Stewart Valley, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. A mountaineer free climbs high on Great Sail Peak's huge north face.
    BI 4642.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Rime from breathing coats face & jacket of Dr. Lis Densmore after becoming 1st woman to climb 16,067' Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest mountain. (Ellsworth Mountains).
    AG 2272.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Meredith Wiltsie (MR) in Annapurna Sanctuary, below South Face of 8,091 meter (26,545') Annapurna I, world's 10th highest peak .
    AA 0816.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0918.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 1009.jpg
  • The South Face of Annapurna I & Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
    AA 0711.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Weddell seal sleeps on snowy beach on King George Island in South Shetland Islands, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
    AG 5606.jpg
  • An Amazon Indian woman of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru, prepares to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to a more modern, workaday job.
    PEe 091108-590-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-574-2.jpg
  • Close view of a praying mantis.
    OV 2513.jpg
  • CHINA, Xinjiang. Bactrian camels carrying trekking equipment in Pamir Mountains.
    CX 4945.jpg
  • A butterfly lands on the forehead of Beder Chavez, an Indian naturalist working in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091113-229-2.jpg
  • Lomonosov Icecap, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.	A polar explorer stands atop a mountain surrounded by huge glaciers.
    SV 0687.jpg
  • PERU. PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) "nail stone" sculpture at previously undiscovered city in the upper Amazon cloud forests. (Found in 1999).
    PE 3414.jpg
  • A pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) nail stone sculpture.
    PE 3403.jpg
  • A Bactrian Camel in the Pamir Mountains of Xinjiang, China, has a peg through its nose for a lead rope.
    CX 4510.jpg
  • Mountaineer Greg Child bundles up against in sub-zero temperatures during a scouting trip to Canada's Baffin Island.
    BI 7114.jpg
  • Bathed in sunset light, mountaineer Mark Synnott scouts for rock climbs from a ski plane flying over Canada's Baffin Island.
    BI 7081.jpg
  • A rock carving of a face adorns the cornerstone of a temple at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture in Peru's Cordillera Central.
    PE 1630.jpg
  • A skier navigates moguls on on the Face of Bell Mountain, Aspen Mountain, Colorado.
    SK 24017.jpg
  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. A pre-Incan pottery face with eyes like coffee beans - found at Qoriwayrachina archaeological site on Cerro Victoria - may be 2,400 years old.
    PT 4802.jpg
  • Roger Schley ascends “Cucumbers,” a difficult route on the north face of Cardinal Pinnacle in the Sierra Nevada above Bishop, California.  1973.
    CLM 43-30.jpg
  • Roger Schley exults while climbing the north face of Cleaver Peak in the Sawtooth Range of the Sierra Nevada, above Bridgeport, California.
    CLM 29-22.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. John Catto films Mark Synnott & Jared Ogdon (MR) high up 4000' granite face on Great Sail Peak.
    BI 5118.jpg
  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
    BI 6369.jpg
  • Water Buffalo face an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0901.jpg
  • The South Face of Lhotse towers over the Imja Valley in the Khumbu Region of Nepal. 1979.  Island Peak R)
    K 1816.jpg
  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-301.jpg
  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-292.jpg
  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-256.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-153.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-141.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rappels down a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-127.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-109.jpg
  • Barb Wilson climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-081.jpg
  • Barb Wilson climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-033.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-014.jpg
  • On the Baruntse headwall (north col, east face), in Khumbu, Nepal.
    B 0155.jpg
  • Snow waits to avalanche off a rock face in the Manang Valley north of Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 5113.jpg
  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
    AA 0909.jpg
  • Dramatic erosion has carved deep gullies and steep aretes and ridges on the folded, sedimentary East Face of Laurel Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.
    CAe 141004-379.jpg
  • Dramatic erosion has carved deep gullies and steep aretes and ridges on the folded, sedimentary East Face of Laurel Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.
    CAe 141004-376.jpg
  • Fall colors punctuate dramatic erosion that has carved deep gullies and steep aretes and ridges on the folded, sedimentary East Face of Laurel Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.
    CAe 141004-372.jpg
  • Fall colors punctuate dramatic erosion that has carved deep gullies and steep aretes and ridges on the folded, sedimentary East Face of Laurel Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.
    CAe 141004-371.jpg
  • Dramatic erosion has carved deep gullies and steep aretes and ridges on the folded, sedimentary East Face of Laurel Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.
    CAe 141004-358.jpg
  • Fall colors punctuate dramatic erosion that has carved deep gullies and steep aretes and ridges on the folded, sedimentary East Face of Laurel Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.
    CAe 141004-350.jpg
  • A Zodiac raft carries tourists under a calving glacier face in Neko Harbor, Antarctica.
    ATe 080219-290.jpg
  • Clouds from a clearing storm obscure the Northwest Face of Half Dome in California's Yosemite National Park, California.
    SN 7390.jpg
  • SKIING, Big Sky, Montana. Skiers descend Liberty Bowl on Lone Peak's South Face.
    SK 19931.jpg
  • SKIING, Big Sky, Montana. Meg O'Leary (MR) skiing Liberty Bowl on Lone Peak's South Face.
    SK 19926.jpg
  • Sherpas and porters set up a camp for trekkers at Dzongla Meadows, under the North Face of Cholatse, a peak near Mount Everest in Nepal.
    SC 0133.jpg
  • A trekker stands ibeside his tent in a camp below the north face of Cholatse Peak in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
    SC 0004.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Mike Graber cat-naps while hanging 1700 feet up face of Rakekniven spire in Filchner Mountains.
    QM 6348.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Conrad Anker watches Jon Krakauer sorts out tangle of hardware on huge east face of Rakekniven spire. (MR)
    QM 6116.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up steep east face of Rakekniven Spire, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 6076.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Jon Krakauer & Conrad Anker (MR) ski toward climb on east face of Rakekniven spire. (Route is directly in front of them).
    QM 5990.jpg
  • Conrad Anker free climbs low on the huge overhanging face of Rakekniven ("The Razor") in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 4703.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Fenris Mountains. Right to Left: Holtanna (2650m) (west face), Holsttind (2577m), Kinntanna (2721m) & Ulvetanna (2931m). Fenristunga Glacier ("Tongue of the Fenris Wolf") foreground.
    QM 1201.jpg
  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. A pre-Incan pot fragment decorated with a crude face - found at Qoriwayrachina archaeological site on Cerro Victoria, a long-vanished commercial center - may date from as early as 400 B.C.
    PT 4710.jpg
  • Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu Region, Himalaya, Nepal. Mounts Everest (left), behind huge south face of  Lhotse, one of biggest cliffs on earth.
    KF 1305.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Mt. Everest (8850m), behind massive Lhotse-Nuptse wall & south face of 8501m Lhotse (R), 4th highest peak on earth.
    K 2015.jpg
  • Lisa Gnade ascends the west face of Jebel (mount) Khaz Ali in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
    JD 2751.jpg
  • Lisa Gnade ascends the west face of Jebel (mount) Khaz Ali in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
    JD 2747.jpg
  • A Uygar husband, wife and daughter - who hides her face from the camera - ride a donkey cart to the Sunday bazaar in Kashgar (Kashi), a town on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.
    CX 0608.jpg
  • Roger Schley climbs a possible new route up the north face of Cleaver Peak in the Sawtooth Range of the Sierra Nevada. (1974)
    CLM 42-43.jpg
  • Jay Jensen starts up the ZigZag Cracks below The Visor at the top of the Northwest Face route up Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California. June 1974,
    CLM 41-21.jpg
  • Jay Jensen climbing on the North West face of Half Dome, Yosemite, California. 1974 This was the second “clean” ascent of the climb - undertaken without pitons.
    CLM 21-27.jpg
  • Jay Jensen climbs in the ZigZag Cracks, high on the northwest face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.
    CLM 21-02.jpg
  • Jay Jensen relaxes at a belay station partway up the 2nd hammerless ascent of the Northwest Face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.  June 1974
    CLM 20-13.jpg
  • L to R: Roger Schley, Gordon Wiltsie & Jay Jensen snack atop Mount Sill after an ascent of the east face route, circa 1974.
    CLM 19-25.jpg
  • Roger Schley struggles with a difficult climbing move on the east face of 14,153’ Mount Sill above the Palisade Glacier of the Sierra Nevada.
    CLM 19-20.jpg
  • Galen Rowell prepares to ascend a rope during the first free ascent of the East Face of Keeler Needle, near Mount Whitney in California's Sierra Nevada.
    CL 0643.jpg
  • Mountaineers Galen Rowell & Chris Vandiver approach the east face of Keeler Needle, just south of Mount Whitney (on right)
    CL 0603.jpg
  • Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonia, Chile. Phillip Lloyd belays Tyler Van Arsdell up steep, rime-coated face during first ascent of the Fickle Finger of Fate in this previously unexplored range.
    CE 4551.jpg
  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO EXPED., Jack Miller & Philip Lloyd (MR) raft in Chile's Fjord of the Mountains, below calving glacier face.
    CE 0321.jpg
  • A mountaineer studies the east face of Mount Whitney, the highest summit in the lower 48 States, en route to climbing nearby mountains.
    BP 2606.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Great Sail Peak.  Route of National Geographic-sponsored first-ascent expedition goes up the North Face, just right of central summit gully.
    BI 8250.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Sail Peaks tower above Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River. Great Sail Peak on right, with climbing route in longest, blankest part of face.
    BI 8247.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe & Greg Child sleep atop Great Sail peak after month-long big wall climb on north face of an arctic cliff.
    BI 6383.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. John Catto films Greg Child (MR) high up 4000' granite face on Great Sail Peak.
    BI 5750.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto films Jared Ogden & Mark Synnott (MR) high on 4000' granite face of Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb.
    BI 5111.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR), belays from bosun's chair on north face of Great Sail Peak (Arctic big wall rock climb) as he sorts through hardware that includes cams, pitons, slings, carabiners, ropes, etc.
    BI 4739.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe starts up first pitch of month-long climb on north face of Great Sail Peak, above Stewart Valley.
    BI 3621.jpg
  • A zodiac driver from a cruise ships takes a few quiet moments below the calving face of a coastal glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
    AT 7639.jpg
  • Yak Khowa Mountain ("Yak Face') towers over Jarkot Village, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 1906.jpg
  • Expedition sirdar Pasang Kami Sherpa sits in front of the South Face of Annapurna I in Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
    AA 0911.jpg
  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-235.jpg
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