Where: Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
When: 1998
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
Hikers move as a team to cross the mile-long [1.6-kilometer-long] glacier leading up to Serendipity Peak. A guide takes the lead to check the path for crevasses.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Wilderness by Air,” July/August 1999, National Geograpic Traveler magazine)
"[Lewis and Clark expedition member Sacagawea] must have heard the waves before she saw them, finally glimpsing Oregon's shore ... in January 1806. In the space of a year Sacagawea had given birth, found her kin, and walked halfway across a continent. Her fate is a mystery, yet her legend lives on as pathfinder, feminist icon, and Indian heroine."
—From "Searching for Sacagawea," February 2003, National Geographic magazine
"Mothers and daughters haul handmade bricks at a southeast India kiln while the fathers and s##被过滤## stoke the fires. Kiln owners acquire workers by loaning poor families money for expenses far beyond their means: medical care or a funeral. Despite years of work to pay these loans, exorbitant interest and dishonest accounting perpetuate the debts, and parents pass the burdens on to their children. Roughly two-thirds of the world's captive laborers?5 to 20 million people梐re debt slaves in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal."
—From "21st Century Slaves," September 2003, National Geographic magazine
“The magnificent jet propels air safety to new heights, yet accidents still occur. Records show that takeoff and landing remain the critical phases of flight. One long-range solution is increased automation. A Lockheed TriStar touches down ‘hands off’ at Palmdale, California; a time exposure by a remotely operated camera attached to the aircraft’s vertical tail fin blurs city and runway lights."
—From "The Air-Safety Challenge," August 1977, National Geographic magazine
A late afternoon wind blows desert dust across a Chipaya herder and her sheep. Most Chipaya families own sheep, important sources of meat, cheese, and wool to keep or to trade.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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