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  • Conrad Anker ascends a rope high on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a towering granite fin in the Filchner Mountains of Antarctica's Queen Maud Land.  Behind are the Fenris Mountains.
    QM 6514.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Mike Graber ascends rope on overhanging cliff on Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains.
    QM 5436.jpg
  • Using a short, thin rope, ski mountaineer AllanPietrasanta rappels from trees to tree into the Warwan River Gorge during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
    HS 2717.jpg
  • John Fischer ascends a rope below Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California.  Half Dome rises above Tenaya Canyon in the background.
    CL 2495.jpg
  • Mike Graber (MR) ascends a rope in the Buttermilk Rocks, below the eastern Sierra Nevada near Bishop, California.
    CL 2113.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Alex Lowe (MR) climbs fixed rope above hanging bivouac on Great Sail Peak, Stewart Valley.
    BI 6214.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada.  Alex Lowe (MR) ascends rope above hanging camp on Great Sail Peak, on last day of month-long, Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
    BI 6210.jpg
  • Rock climber Chris Neve throws rappel rope off Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-011.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Kristoffer Erickson (MR) throws rappel rope down Owen-Spaulding route of Grand Teton.
    CL 7844.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Kristoffer Erickson (MR) throws rappel rope down Owen-Spaulding route of Grand Teton.
    CL 7833.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. A rock climbing expedition prepares to lower huge haul bags that are used to drag food, water and equipment up a big wall climb.  This load was so heavy that the friction generated by a braking device almost melted the rope.
    BI 6514.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada.  Alex Lowe (MR) ascends rope above hanging camp on Great Sail Peak, on last day of month-long, Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
    BI 6210.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe & Mark Synnott ascend ropes on Great Sail Peak, a 4000-foot monolith north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
    BI 4795.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
  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr.Lis Densmore (MR) builds snow wall below continent's highest summit to protect camp from high polar winds. Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
    AG 2106.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Veteran Sherpa mountaineer learns to do Tyrolean traverse at 1980 climbing school in Khumbu region.
    SC 0130.jpg
  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-201.jpg
  • Rock Climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.  Banff Springs Hotel background.
    CLe 070929-013.jpg
  • Photographer shoots rock climber on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 070929-009.jpg
  • National Geographic photography seminar documents rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-044.jpg
  • National Geographic photography seminar documents rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-043.jpg
  • National Geographic photography seminar documents rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-036.jpg
  • National Geographic photography seminar documents rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-034.jpg
  • Rachel Ludwig prepares for rock climb on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-030.jpg
  • Rachel Ludwig prepares for rock climb on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-029.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-028.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-027.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-026.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-025.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-023.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-022.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-019.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-017.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-016.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-015.jpg
  • Rock Climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-013.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-009.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-003.jpg
  • A toddler rides his father's Bactrian camel in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-325.jpg
  • A Bactrian camel chews its cud on a sand dune in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-313.jpg
  • A Sherpa yak driver loads his animal on the Mount Everest trekking trail in the Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • A mountaineer ascends Rakekniven Spire in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 6516.jpg
  • Conrad Anker free climbs low on the huge overhanging face of Rakekniven ("The Razor") in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 4703.jpg
  • Gallatin Valley, Montana.  A young rider and skier practice ski joring near Bozeman.
    MT 4320.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
  • A rock climber rappels from boulder in Buttermilk Rocks.
    CLP 1556.jpg
  • A rock climber rappels down a boulder in the Buttermilk Rocks
    CLP 1208.jpg
  • Climbers ascend a granite tower in Gallatin Canyon near Bozeman, Montana.
    CL 6607.jpg
  • ROCK CLIMBING. Gallatin Canyon, Montana,  Rock climbers on spire.
    CL 6439.jpg
  • Andy Selters sets up a tricky Tyrolean Traverse on the Sun Ribbon Arete of Temple Crag in the Palisade region of California's Sierra Nevada.
    CL 5501.jpg
  • Ice climber Tim Villanueva (MR) leads steep up a steep frozen waterfall in Lee Vining Canyon, in California's Sierra Nevada.
    CL 5392.jpg
  • Yosemite National Park, California. Rock climber on Polly Dome above Lake Tenaya near Tuolumne Meadows.  Jay Jensen (MR)
    CL 4263.jpg
  • Climbers attempt the first ascent of a mountain in Chile's previously unexplored Cordillera Sarmiento, a weather-beaten range in Patagonia.
    CE 4618.jpg
  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO, PATAGONIA, CHILE. Philip Lloyd & Tyler Van Arsdell (MR) below summit of rime-covered mountain in this previously unexplored range at the southern tip of the Andes.  Chilean fjords background.
    CE 4612.jpg
  • 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.
    BI 5655.jpg
  • A mountaineer aid climbs high up a big wall on Great Sail Peak, a massive cliff on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
    BI 4974.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) hauls loads to a high camp on huge Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
    BI 4443.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto (MR) carries heavy haul bag up Great Sail Peak, above Stewart Valley.
    BI 4391.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto (MR) carries heavy haul bag up Great Sail Peak, above Stewart Valley.
    BI 4370.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) atop a pinnacle on 2850-meter Mount Bearskin in the Ellsworth Mountains.
    AX 0221.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, exhausted as he climbs towards summit on first ascent of Mount Vaughan, a 10,302-foot mountain near the South Pole that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole. He summit two days before his 89th birthday. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan background. Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, climbs towards summit on first ascent of Mount Vaughan, a 10,302-foot mountain near the South Pole that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole.
    AV 3052.jpg
  • Sasha Ruttan rock climbs on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-018.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-005.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-001.jpg
  • A Bactrian camel in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, wears a camel-hair halter and a nose peg to lead it.
    MGe 080713-301.jpg
  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-201.jpg
  • A Sherpa woman (Sherpani) unties her yak after unloading it in her village of Pheriche, near the base camp for Mount Everest.  (Photo taken in 1980)
    S 0509.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Nomadic herder with Bactrian camel.
    MG 3144.jpg
  • Pokhara, Nepal.Villager on raft crosses Lake Phewa Tal.
    KM 1414.jpg
  • Sierra Nevada, California. Mountaineer rappels over glacier bergshrund crevasse on Palisade Glacier.
    CL 4088.jpg
  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO, PATAGONIA, CHILE.  Philip Lloyd & Pete Garber (MR) below summit of rime-covered mountain in this previously unexplored range at the southern tip of the Andes.  Chilean fjords background.
    CE 4705.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING, Bugaboo Mts., B.C., Canada. Roger Schley (MR) in storm, retreating from ascent of Pigeon Spire.
    BB 0739.jpg
  • Chris Neve jumps on a rope at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-212.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway waits to climb a rope on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a huge overhanging big wall in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 5612.jpg
  • A pig is tied to a rope on an estancia near Chillo.
    PE 5533.jpg
  • Climbers toss a rappel rope from the summit of Eichorn's Pinnacle on Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park, California.
    CL 3254.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
  • Rock climber Sasha Ruttan coils a rope at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-353.jpg
  • Chris Neve jumps on a rope at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-187.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up steep east face of Rakekniven Spire, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 6076.jpg
  • Mountaineer David Roberts rappels off Jebel (Mount) Khaz Ali in Jordan's Wadi Rum, a spectacular part of the Arabian Desert.
    JD 2767.jpg
  • Jeff Heath climbs ice on the "Elevator Shaft" in Hyalite Canyon, near Bozeman, MT.
    CL 7108.jpg
  • A climbing student practices on crags above base camp for the former Palisade School of Mountaineering in California’s Sierra Nevada.
    CL 6352.jpg
  • Members of a photography workshop photograph rock climbers near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-155.jpg
  • Rock climbers ascend Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-142.jpg
  • Rock climbers ascend Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-141.jpg
  • Photographer Bill Hatcher during a photo workshop in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-131.jpg
  • Members of a photography workshop photograph rock climbers near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-113.jpg
  • Members of a photography workshop photograph rock climbers near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-108.jpg
  • A woman belays climbers at Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    CLe 090926-090.jpg
  • A rock climber ascends Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Cascade Mountain is behind.
    CLe 090926-071.jpg
  • A rock climber ascends Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Cascade Mountain is behind.
    CLe 090926-065.jpg
  • A rock climber ascends Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Cascade Mountain is behind.
    CLe 090926-044.jpg
  • Rock climber Eric Sethna relaxes at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-350.jpg
  • Barb Wilson starts to rappel at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-344.jpg
  • Barb Wilson climbs at Rundle Rock near the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-335.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
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