Monolith Kalahari The slowed shutter holds what

The slowed shutter holds what longboarders sometimes call hot-dogging — walking the board

framed between wind-bent palms on a day the mountain was giving everything it had

the summit catching first light

Ben took the high road for once

The Teton Range comes up out of the Wyoming valley floor without any foothills — there's no transition between sagebrush flat and 13

Monolith Kalahari The slowed shutter holds whatTamara isolates a single Antarctic peak, stripping the frame of color until only the architecture remains the spine of the ridge, the wind loaded couloirs, the black where the rock pushes through. Most of the peaks on the peninsula are unnamed; very few have been climbed. The frame leaves the mountain unscaled, no point of reference, just shape.