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  • Expedition skiers on Europe's classic Haute Route Traverse cross France's Argentiere Glacier, en route from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Great Sail Peak.  Expedition route goes just right of central summit gully.
    BI 8251.jpg
  • An expedition skier on Europe's classic Haute Route traverse climbs a pass above France's Trient Glacier, enroute from Chamonix to Zermatt.
    SK 16403.jpg
  • SKIING, Swiss Alps, Jay Jensen (MR) skis Trient Glacier on Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt.
    SK 16398.jpg
  • SKIING,French Alps, Haute Route skiers(MR) climb Chardonnet Glacier. Aiguille Verte (4121m) bkg.
    SK 16302.jpg
  • SKIING,French Alps, Haute Route skiers(MR) climb Chardonnet Glacier. Aiguille Verte (4121m) bkg.
    SK 16299.jpg
  • Ski mountaineers climb the Chardonnet Glacier on the classic Haute Route ski tour through the Alps from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland.  Aiguille Verte (4121m) is in the background .
    SK 16275.jpg
  • SKIING,French Alps, Haute Route skiers(MR) climb Chardonnet Glacier. Aiguille Verte (4121m) bkg.
    SK 16256.jpg
  • SKIING,French Alps, Haute Route skiers(MR) climb Chardonnet Glacier. Aiguille Verte (4121m) bkg.
    SK 16254.jpg
  • Haute Route skier (MR) on Argentiere Glacier, enroute from Chamonix to Zermatt.
    SK 16216.jpg
  • Haute Route skiers (MR) above Argentiere Glacier, at start of journey to Zermatt.
    SK 16201.jpg
  • SKIING, Swiss Alps, Jay Jensen (MR) descends Pigne d'Arolla, Haute Route.
    SK 16657.jpg
  • SKIING, Swiss Alps, Haute Route skiers atop Pigne d'Arolla.
    SK 16647.jpg
  • SKIING, Swiss Alps, Haute Route skier (MR) above Trient Glacier, enroute from Chamonix to Zermatt.
    SK 16572.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) prepares to rappel down Owen-Spaulding route of Grand Teton.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Kristoffer Erickson (MR) climbs above the Upper Saddle on Owen-Spaulding route near summit of Grand Teton, Wyoming.
    CL 7809.jpg
  • 13-year old Ben Wiltsie climbs the Cain Route on Bugaboo Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.  Behind him are the Vowell Glacier and the Howser Spire Massif.
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  • 13-year old Ben Wiltsie climbs the Cain Route on Bugaboo Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.  Behind him are the Vowell Glacier, Pigeon Spire and the Howser Spire Massif
    BB 0337.jpg
  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Marpha, an ancient trading village on salt trading route through Kali Gandaki gorge between Annapurna & Dhaulagiri.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Expedition members plot most efficient route from North Pole to Ellesmere Island.
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  • 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) descends Owen-Spaulding route near summit of Grand Teton, Wyoming.
    CL 7823.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING, Kris Erickson (MR) climbs Owen-Spaulding route near summit of Grand Teton, Wyoming.
    CL 7819.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Kristoffer Erickson (MR) climbs above the Upper Saddle on Owen-Spaulding route near summit of Grand Teton, Wyoming.
    CL 7812.jpg
  • 13-year old Ben Wiltsie climbs the Cain Route on Bugaboo Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.  Behind him are the Vowell Glacier, Pigeon Spire and the Howser Spire Massif.
    BB 0331.jpg
  • A young mountaineer and his adult companions descend the Vowell Glacier after climbing a mountain in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A panorama of the Alps from the Col du Chardonnet near Chamonix, France.
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  • A mountaineer approaches the foggy summit of Mount Humphreys on the crest of California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • A mountaineer approaches the summit of Mount Humphreys on the crest of California's Sierra Nevada.
    CL 1235.jpg
  • Expedition skiers on Europe's classic Haute Route Traverse cross the Col du Chardonnet en route from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland.
    SK 16311.jpg
  • 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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  • A Tibetan family flees into Nepal from the border province of Mustang with their belongings carried on the backs of horses and yaks.  Until the Chinese overwhelmed Tibet in the Fifties, this route through the Kali Gandaki Gorge was a common trade route between Nepal, India and Tibet.
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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.
    BI 5773.jpg
  • A Tibetan family flees into Nepal from the border province of Mustang with their belongings carried on the backs of horses and yaks.  Until the Chinese overwhelmed Tibet in the Fifties, this route through the Kali Gandaki Gorge was a common trade route between Nepal, India and Tibet.
    AA 1907.jpg
  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
    CLi 170805-125.jpg
  • A Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) dives en route up Peru's  Amazon River.
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  • Haute Route skiers (MR) ski Stockji Glacier to Zermatt. Matterhorn bkg.
    SK 16784.jpg
  • A pack train for a National Geographic archaeology expedition descends from Choquetecarpo Pass (5100+ meters) in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba mountains, en route to Cerro Victoria at the end of the canyon (Quebrada Moyoc).
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Young nomads "horse around" en route to Utreg Pass during fall migration over Horidol Saridog Mts. to Lake Hovsgol.
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  • A ski mountaineer crosses Gulol Pass, en route across the Himalaya.
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Migrating nomad family crosses Horidol Saridag Mts. en route to wintering sites by Lake Hovsgol.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Firewood and barley dry on roof tops in Marpha, an ancient trading village on a salt trading route through the Kali Gandaki gorge between Annapurna & Dhaulagiri.
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  • A Hindu pilgrim en route to Muktinath Temple, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • A passenger jet banks over the southern San Francisco Bay Area, en route to a landing at SFO airport.
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  • A passenger jet banks over the southern San Francisco Bay Area, en route to a landing at SFO airport.
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  • A passenger jet banks over the southern San Francisco Bay Area, en route to a landing at SFO airport.
    TR 180722-113.jpg
  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
    CLi 170805-115.jpg
  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
    CLi 170805-113.jpg
  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
    CLi 170805-108.jpg
  • Marty Steiger works on a rock climbing route at Mission Cliffs gym in San Francisco, California.
    CLi 170805-107.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Greg Child, Mark Synnott & Alex Lowe (MR) look for climbing route up Great Sail Peak from frozen lake in remote Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Great Sail Peak.  Expedition route goes just right of central summit gully.
    BI 8252.jpg
  • Expedition porters sort out loads at the beginning of a day en route to the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980
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  • Expedition porters awai payday, en route to the Khumbu Region of Nepal, 1980
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  • A trekker wades up a monsoon-flooded trail en route to the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980
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  • Trekkers wade across a monsoon-flooded trail en route to the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980
    L 0228.jpg
  • Trekkers en route to Mt. Everest basecamp pass thourhg chorten Monuments honorisng sherpas and climbers who have been killed.  Mt. Ama Dablam L bkg.
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  • Mountaineer Dr. Gil Roberts hikes below Mounts Everest and Nuptse, en route to the seldom-visited Changri La Pass, west of the Everest masssif in the Khumbu Region of Nepal.
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  • Imja headwall of Baruntse.  Route follows big flute below dead center of col, then left of rock band.
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  • Rice terraces en route to Annapurna Sanctuary
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  • A Thakali horse caravan returns after delivering rice and other goods through the Kali Gandaki gorge, a salt trade route with Tibet.
    AN 0813.jpg
  • A trading caravan crosses the Thak Kola (Kali Gandaki) river north of Jomsom, long a trading route with Tibet.
    AA 2004.jpg
  • A trading caravan crosses the Thak Kola (Kali Gandaki) river north of Jomsom, long a trading route with Tibet.
    AA 2003.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Gretel Ehrlich rides in a sled behind a snowmobile, en route to a camp of the last remaining nomadic Komi reindeer herders.
    RUe 070413-103.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Gretel Ehrlich rides in a sled behind a snowmobile, en route to a camp of the last remaining nomadic Komi reindeer herders.
    RUe 070413-096.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Gretel Ehrlich rides in a sled behind a snowmobile, en route to a camp of the last remaining nomadic Komi reindeer herders.
    RUe 070413-095.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a mechanic from Nizhnyaya Pesha carries Andrei Volkov and Andrew MacLean in a sled behind his crude Russian snowmobile. They are en route to visit the ever-moving camp of the last nomadic Komi reindeer-herding clan.  The rifle is for protection against bears.
    RUe 070413-088.jpg
  • Traffic plies Montana State Route 64 to Big Sky, Montana.
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  • Tourists in a zodiac raft en route back to Chilean cruise ship Mare Australis after hike on Navarino Island, above Murray Channel in Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
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  • Tourists board a zodiac raft from Chilean cruise ship Mare Australis, en route to Navarino Island in Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
    CHe 080131-185.jpg
  • Tourists descend stairs below lighthouse at Cape Horn en route back to Chilean cruise ship, Mare Australis
    CHe 080131-143.jpg
  • Tourists descend stairs below lighthouse at Cape Horn en route back to Chilean cruise ship, Mare Australis
    CHe 080131-134.jpg
  • Tourists descend stairs below lighthouse at Cape Horn en route back to Chilean cruise ship, Mare Australis
    CHe 080131-130.jpg
  • Tourists descend stairs below lighthouse at Cape Horn en route back to Chilean cruise ship, Mare Australis
    CHe 080131-129.jpg
  • Tourists in a zodiac raft en route to Cape Horn from Chilean cruise ship Mare Australis.
    CHe 080131-014.jpg
  • A container ship freighter cruises through fog along the California Pacific Ocean coast en route to San Francisco.
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  • Tourists brave wind, rain and waves in a Zodiac raft en route back to their ship from Half Moon Island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080223-223.jpg
  • Tourists brave wind, rain and waves in a Zodiac raft en route back to their ship from Half Moon Island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080223-215.jpg
  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, David Breashears & Chinese guide study route through this deep Himalayan gorge.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, Porters scramble over rugged route through this deep Himalayan canyon.
    TS 1308.jpg
  • Travelers study route along N. Himalaya on newly-opened road in S.E. Tibet.
    TS 0578.jpg
  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Expedition members plot most efficient route across drifting ice between North Pole and Ellesmere Island.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT.  Julie Hansen & Takako Takano wait for Victor Boyarsky to scout route thru pressure ice on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • WILL STEGER in -40 degree temperatures off coast of Severnaya Zemlya (Russia), en route to Canada via the frozen Arctic Ocean & North Pole, International Arctic Project dogsled expedition.
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  • DOGSLEDDING, International Arctic Project. Team led by Will Steger (MR) threads between pressure ridges on frozen Arctic Ocean shortly after leaving Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, en route to Canada via the North Pole. Air temperature is -40 degrees.
    ST 6889.jpg
  • Haute Route skier (MR) skis Stockji Glacier to Zermatt. Matterhorn bkg.
    SK 16799.jpg
  • Jay Jensen descends a wilderness slope on the classic Haute Route ski tour through the Alps between Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland.
    SK 16725.jpg
  • Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta cross a glacier on the classic Haute Route ski tour through the Alps between Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland.
    SK 16609.jpg
  • Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta cross a glacier on the classic Haute Route ski tour through the Alps between Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland.
    SK 16600.jpg
  • Michael Graber skis on the Palisade Glacier below the U-Notch Couloir, a popular climbing route up North Palisade peak.  To its right are Starlight Peak and Thunderbolt Peak.
    SK 6281.jpg
  • 21,129-foot Cholatse Peak towers above a glacial lake in Nepal's Dzongla Valley, near Mount Everest.  Right of the frame is the Cho La Pass, which is very popular with trekkers en route to Everest Base Camp.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Conrad Anker & Jon Krakauer ski by Rakekniven spire. Ascent route follows right (east) skyline. Filchner Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker (MR) plan route up Rakekniven spire in Filchner Mountains.
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  • 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
  • ANTARCTICA.  Large rock that fell from climbing route up Rakekniven.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Expedition members below Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mts.  Route follows cracks right of summit.
    QM 4661.jpg
  • Alex Lowe glimpses Antarctica's Queen Maud Land for the first time from the cockpit of a C-130 Hercules aircraft, en route to a big wall climbing expedition.
    QM 4171.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter-supported reconnaissance expedition camps on Ronne Ice Shelf en route to Queen Maud Land.
    QM 0309.jpg
  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Ben Wiltsie bushwhacks through upper Amazonian cloud forests en route to Incan archaeological site on Cerro Victoria.
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