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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.
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  • Chris Neve jumps on a rope at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-212.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.
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  • 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 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.
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  • Pasang Onchu Sherpa learns to belay under the watchful eye of instructor Pertemba Sherpa at a mountaineering school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980
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  • A mountaineer leaves camp for a climb up one of the 14,000-foot peaks above the nearby Palisade Glacier in California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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.
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  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-292.jpg
  • Chris Neve rappels at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-220.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 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
  • Sasha Ruttan climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-014.jpg
  • A young Sherpa mountaineer learns proper belay techniques at a climbing school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980.
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  • Sherpa men load a yak  with juniper firewood they have gathered under Cho La Pass near Mount Everest in Nepal's Khumbu Region.
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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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  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up steep east face of Rakekniven Spire, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 6076.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up steep slopes of Rakekniven, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 6073.jpg
  • Mountaineer David Roberts rappels off Jebel (Mount) Khaz Ali in Jordan's Wadi Rum, a spectacular part of the Arabian Desert.
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  • Mountaineer David Roberts rappels off Jebel (Mount) Khaz Ali in Jordan's Wadi Rum, a spectacular part of the Arabian Desert.
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  • 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
  • A climber ascends an overhang in the Buttermilk Rocks, near Bishop, California.
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  • A mountaineer leaves camp for a climb up one of the 14,000-foot peaks above the nearby Palisade Glacier in California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • A mountaineer melts snow for water in a camp below the Palisade Glacier in California's Sierra Nevada.  Behind are 14,000+ foot North Palisade and Thunderbolt Peaks.
    BP 2326.jpg
  • Stewart Valley, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. A mountaineer free climbs high on Great Sail Peak's huge north face.
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  • A guide leads mountaineers back to base camp after a multi-day ascent of Mount Vinson, the highest summit in Antarctica.
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  • 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 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
  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-256.jpg
  • Eric Sethna pendulums across a face at Rundle Rock near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-235.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 rappels down a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-127.jpg
  • Barb Wilson climbs a face at Rundle Rock, below Cascade Mountain, near Banff, Alberta, in Canada's Banff National Park.
    CLe 080913-042.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
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
    RUe 070416-042.jpg
  • Various flotsam washes ashore on a beach on Carcass Island, in Britain's Falkland Islands.
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  • Various flotsam washes ashore on a beach on Carcass Island, in Britain's Falkland Islands.
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  • Pasang Ongchu Sherpa prepares to climb a cliff during a mountaineering school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September 1980.
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  • Mountaineer Rick Ridgeway huddles against the cold during a forced bivouac in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 7273.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up to a belay station on the vertical east face of Rakekniven Spire, Queen Maud, Antarctica.
    QM 6099.jpg
  • Mountaineer Lisa Gnade rappels off Jebel (Mount) Khaz Ali in Jordan's Wadi Rum, a spectacular part of the Arabian Desert.
    JD 2796.jpg
  • A rock climber rappels off of a boulder in Buttermilk Rocks.
    CL 2131.jpg
  • Climbers ascend a pinnacle in California's eastern Sierra Nevada.
    CL 1067.jpg
  • A mountaineer leaves camp for a climb up one of the 14,000-foot peaks above the nearby Palisade Glacier in California's Sierra Nevada.
    BP 2415.jpg
  • A rock climber leaves a hanging bivouac camp on an Arctic cliff.
    BI 5707.jpg
  • A rock climber belays above foggy Stewart Valley, high on Great Sail Peak.
    BI 5203.jpg
  • Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe looks for gear on a very difficult aid pitch.
    BI 4715.jpg
  • A Big Wall climber hauls heavy bags up an Arctic cliff on Baffin Island.
    BI 4476.jpg
  • Rob Hart and Ben Wiltsie descend Pigeon Spire in British Columbia's Bugaboo Mountains.
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  • Mountaineers Conrad Anker and the late Alex Lowe ascend the east ridge of Mount Bearskin, above the Patton Glacier in Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.
    AX 0452.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
  • John Fischer ascends a rope below Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California.  Half Dome rises above Tenaya Canyon in the background.
    CL 2495.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
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • MOUNTAINEERING. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Kristoffer Erickson (MR) throws rappel rope down Owen-Spaulding route of Grand Teton.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • National Geographic photography seminar documents rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Veteran Sherpa mountaineer learns to do Tyrolean traverse at 1980 climbing school in Khumbu region.
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  • 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.
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  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
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  • Rock Climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.  Banff Springs Hotel background.
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  • 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
  • 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 060924-017.jpg
  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
    CLe 060924-009.jpg
  • A rock climber rappels from boulder in Buttermilk Rocks.
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  • 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
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) hauls loads to a high camp on huge Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto (MR) carries heavy haul bag up Great Sail Peak, above Stewart Valley.
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  • 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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  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
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  • 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 060924-036.jpg
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