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  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives the arid, high altitude climate below 13,146-foot Boundary Peak, the highest summit in Nevada.  Some bristlecone have lived more than 4800 years and are the oldest non-clonal living things.
    NV 1767.jpg
  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives on the arid, high altitude slopes Boundary Peak, the highest summit in Nevada.  Some bristlecone have lived more than 4800 years and are the oldest non-clonal living things.
    NV 1731.jpg
  • Weather-beaten Bristlecone Pines survive the arid, high altitude climate of California's White Mountains in the U.S. Forest Service's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
    OV 5203.jpg
  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives the arid, high altitude climate of California's White Mountains in the U.S. Forest Service's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
    OV 3949.jpg
  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives the arid, high altitude climate of California's White Mountains in the U.S. Forest Service's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
    OV 0903.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner (MR) descends a slot canyon below huge Shipton's Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near the Taklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang province.
    CX 3929.jpg
  • CHINA, Xinjiang.  Mountaineer Sam Lightner (MR) in slot canyons below Shipton's Arch in arid Kara Tagh Mts near Taklimakan Desert.
    CX 3912.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
    CX 3131.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon behind  him.
    CX 2996.jpg
  • ARGENTINA. Rainbow over arid hills of the Altiplano.
    AR 0268.jpg
  • CHINA, Xinjiang. Expedition (MR) in slot canyons below huge Shipton's Arch in arid Kara Tagh Mts. near Taklimakan Desert.
    CX 3955.jpg
  • A mountaineer rappels below Shipton’s Arch, one of the world’s largest natural bridges, which is well hidden in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
    CX 3838.jpg
  • A mountaineer stands below Shipton’s Arch, one of the world’s largest natural bridges, in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
    CX 3503.jpg
  • CHINA, Xinjiang. Climbers (MR) look up at huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar.
    CX 3396.jpg
  • CHINA, Xinjiang. Gordon Wiltsie (MR) near huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in arid Kara Tagh Mountains, near Kashgar.
    CX 3363.jpg
  • Sam Lightner(MR) rappels on huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.
    CX 3343.jpg
  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
    CX 3171.jpg
  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb ascends treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.  Later the team crossed the range, descending into the dangerous and previously unknown slot canyon behind him.
    CX 3162.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon behind him.
    CX 3139.jpg
  • Sam Lightner (MR) rappels off Shipton's Arch, above arid slot canyons in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Taklimakan Desert.
    CX 3135.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
    CX 3033.jpg
  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
    CX 2998.jpg
  • Sam Lightner (MR) climbs huge dangerous crumbling conglomerate rock on huge Shipton's Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar & the Taklimakan Desert. Nancy Feagin belays.
    CX 2993.jpg
  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
    CX 2953.jpg
  • Mountaineers Mark Newcomb and Nancy Feaghin explore a treacherous slot canyon carved through conglomerate rock below  Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
    CX 2225.jpg
  • Mountaineers Mark Newcomb and Nancy Feaghin explore a desert wash looking for a route to Shipton’s Arch (upper left) in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition climbed it from the other side, then crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyonthat emerges on the far right of this frame.
    CX 2201.jpg
  • Shipton’s Arch, one of the world’s largest natural bridges is well hidden in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
    CX 1692.jpg
  • A Uygar villager from Mingyol steers a burro cart carrying his wife and him to a market town below the arid Kara Tagh Mountains on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert near Kashgar (Kashi) in Xinjiang, China.
    CX 1636.jpg
  • A Uygar villager carries firewood to market on a horse cart.  Behind him is the arid Kara Tagh range (Black Mountains) on the edge of the Taklaimakan Desert.
    CX 1613.jpg
  • The sun beats down on a dry lake bed in California's arid Panamint Valley in the northern Mojave Desert.
    CA 4749.jpg
  • Sam Lightner (MR) rappels on huge Shipton's Arch, one of earth's biggest, in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert.
    CX 3334.jpg
  • Runners train in Joshua tree forest near Mount Charleston.
    RS 3756.jpg
  • The moon rises over a weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine snag, high in California's White Mountains.
    OV 4351.jpg
  • Youngsters bury their patient dog in a sand dune in Eureka Valley, part of California's Death Valley National Park.
    BP 3636.jpg
  • View south along Ninemile Divide from Stark Mountain.
    MT 4411.jpg
  • Youngsters play around a campfire in Eureka Valley, part of California's Death Valley National Park.
    BP 3531.jpg
  • A youngster warms himself by a campfire in Eureka Valley, part of California's Death Valley National Park.
    BP 3518.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
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  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-217.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-178.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-150.jpg
  • A nomadic Mongolian herder in the Gobi Desert tries to catch a horse with his lasso-pole called an Uurga.
    MGe 080714-078.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-053.jpg
  • Sand dunes near Bayanzag in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-317.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-271.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-158.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-152.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-137.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-133.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-052.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-017.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-229.jpg
  • A sacred "ovo"shrine where travelers leave offerings in Yolyn Am, a canyon called "The Vulture's Mouth" in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-163.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-108.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-070.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-051.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-005.jpg
  • While Mark Newcomb (MR) waits above, Sam Lightner rappels off huge Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert. (The figures are almost too small too see.)
    CX 3266.jpg
  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-201.jpg
  • A young nomad helps to shear the family's sheep near Dalanzadgad in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-047.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-029.jpg
  • A stormy sunset over mountains in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad.
    MGe 080714-283.jpg
  • A stormy sunset over the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-277.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-276.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-262.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-256.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-248.jpg
  • The sun sets over a tourist ger camp in the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-246.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-243.jpg
  • An ornamented  Mongolian saddle and whip lay in the sand of the southern Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080714-240.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-238.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-234.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-233.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-226.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-225.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-221.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-219.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-213.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-212.jpg
  • A nomadic Mongolian herder tries to 'saddle-break' a horse in the southern Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080714-207.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-183.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-175.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-166.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-164.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-160.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-152.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-147.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-141.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-137.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-132.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-130.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-127.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-125.jpg
  • A nomadic Mongolian herder in the Gobi Desert tries to catch a horse with his lasso-pole called an Uurga.
    MGe 080714-123.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-122.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-118.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-117.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-109.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-108.jpg
  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-106.jpg
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