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000 feet of granite on the left

Japan's Sea-of-Japan-side mountains get some of the highest snowfall totals in the world — the Siberian airmass picks up moisture crossing the warm sea

Comanche was the name of one of the few US Cavalry horses to survive Little Bighorn — found wounded but alive on the field two days later

Playa Maderas is the small surf beach about thirty minutes north of San Juan del Sur on Nicaragua's Pacific coast — most of the way there is a rough road through dry forest where loose horses are still a normal road hazard

sitting about 100 miles inside the Arctic Circle

Golden Hour Glass Size:Gallery 000 feet of granite onBen grew up on this stretch of New South Wales coast the Central Coast that sits between Sydney and Newcastle and runs on its own quieter clock. The local breaks reward photographers willing to paddle out before light. Sunrise here arrives at the open end of the wave first, the lip going translucent as the sun cracks the horizon. Most mornings the swell doesn't cooperate. This one did. Ben was in the channel with the housing, the barrel pitched on