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  • Alex Lowe relaxes in a hanging Portaledge camp 1700 feet above the glacier on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a massive overhanging cliff in the Filchner Mountains of Queen Maud Land Antarctica.
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  • 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.
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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Looking out of a hanging tent, high up on Great Sail Peak.
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  • Indoor rock climbers work at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Indoor rock climbers work at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Indoor rock climbers work at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Indoor rock climbers work at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Indoor rock climbers work at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Indoor rock climbers work at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Mike Graber ascends rope on overhanging cliff on Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains.
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  • Climber Lisa Gnade ascends an overhang in Rakabat Canyon on Jebel (Mount) Um Ishram in Jordan's Wadi Rum, part of the Arabian Desert.
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  • Climber Lisa Gnade ascends an overhang in Rakabat Canyon on Jebel (Mount) Um Ishram in Jordan's Wadi Rum, part of the Arabian Desert.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada, Hanging Portaledge camp & haul bags under overhang, high on Great Sail Peak. (MR)
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  • Alex Lowe climbs above Cape Horn in South Africa, December 1996.
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  • Lisa Gnade rock climbs in Rakabat Siq (canyon) on Jebel Um Ishrin in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie boulders on volcanic tuff below the Chalk Bluff cliffs near Bishop, California.
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  • A climber ascends Mount Gayley above the Palisade Glacier.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child climbs into storm above Portaledge camp, halfway up Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • A mountaineer peers over a cliff marking the Continental Divide, near the summit of Mount Gould in Glacier National Park, Montana.
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  • A hiker in Jordan's Wadi Rum navigates the labyrinth of Rakabat Canyon in Jebel (Mount) Um Ishram.
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  • A mountaineer looks at mountains along the Continental Divide from a bivouac cave on Mount Gould, in Montana's Glacier National Park.
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  • A hiker overlooks peaks of the Continental Divide in Montana's Glacier National Park.  Immediately behind him is The Garden Wall and Logan Pass. He is standing on the slopes of Mount Gould, high above the Highline Trail.
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  • Conrad Anker free climbs low on the huge overhanging face of Rakekniven ("The Razor") in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • 3,000 feet above the ground on a huge, overhanging granite cliff - the northernmost big wall climb yet attempted at the time - mountaineer Greg Child pounds a piton into a thin crack that is the only route upwards.  He is lit by frigid midnight sun, north of the Arctic Circle, and progress was so slow that the team required nearly a month to complete the route.
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  • 3,000 feet above the ground on a huge, overhanging granite cliff - the northernmost big wall climb yet attempted at the time - mountaineer Greg Child pounds a piton into a thin crack that is the only route upwards.  He is lit by frigid midnight sun, north of the Arctic Circle, and progress was so slow that the team required nearly a month to complete the route.
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  • Rick Ridgeway waits to climb a rope on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a huge overhanging big wall in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Conrad Anker (MR) leads traverse pitch high on overhanging east wall of Rakekniven spire in the Filchner Moutnains.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land Expedition. Rick Ridgeway (MR) jumars overhanging wall below hanging camp on Rakekniven spire.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Jon Catto, Greg Child & Mark Synnott (MR) set up a hanging Portaledge camp, high on upper headwall of Great Sail Peak, a 4,000-vertical-foot, overhanging granite wall.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe in portaledge camp high on overhanging granite wall on Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Mossy trees overhang the trail in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1974
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  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Graber (MR) jumars overhang on Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mts, Queen Maud Land.
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  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC.  Decending the stairs is Expeditions Council advisory board member Anne Giesecke.
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  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC.
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  • ROCK CLIMBING. Ben Wiltsie (MR) on a huge overhang in Kootenai Canyon, Bitterroot Mts., Montana.
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  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC.  (Expeditions Council Director Rebecca Martin is descending the stairs after the Council's 2011 Board meeting.)
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  • A climber ascends an overhang in the Buttermilk Rocks, near Bishop, California.
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  • ROCK CLIMBING. Robin Jensen (MR) boulders hard overhang, Buttermilk Rocks, near Bishop, CA.
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  • Paintings of classic exploration overhang the stairs leading to the formal boardroom at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC. (Anne Giesecke is walking down.)
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Michael  Graber (MR) jumars overhang on Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mts.
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