Where: Okavango Delta, Botswana
When: 1999
Photographer: Chris Johns
“Bloodstained from its last meal, a cub shows features of a hunter built for speed. During sprints, a membrane shields eyes while large nostrils allow for rapid oxygen intake. Dark ‘tearstains’ may block glare.”
—From “Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands,” December 1999, National Geographic magazine
Where: Siberia, Russia
When: 1996
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
Though archaeological evidence points to the beginnings of caribou domestication at 2,000 years ago, the Nenets' tradition of mass herding is no more than 400 years old.
As the Russian Empire expanded eastward from Moscow, other native peoples encroached on the Nenets' caribou hunting grounds in their flight. The Nenets coped by switching to caribou herding, which allowed them to escape the population influx and move northward with their livelihood intact.
Where: South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
When: 1998
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
Fortuna Bay sits between craggy peaks and glaciers on South Georgia. In 1916 Ernest Shackleton and his men trekked by this stretch of water toward the island's whaling stati##被过滤##, where they found salvation after being stranded in Antarctica for nearly two years.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Shackleton: Epic of Survival," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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