National Geographic - UK (2022-02)
Paris-based photographer Tomas van Houtryve used his 19th-century camera to explore the hidden history of the American West in h ...
The unique diversity of cichlids in Africa’s oldest lake could help unlock the secrets of evolution. BY NATA S H A DALY PHOTOGRA ...
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Emperor cichlids, believed to mate only once, watch over their thousands of offspring, called fry. Adults can grow to almost thr ...
NOTHING ABOUT CICHLIDS is ordi- nary. In Lake Tan ganyika alone, at the divide between Central and East Africa, roughly 250 spec ...
Shell wars A female Neolampro- logus brevis emerges from her home—a deserted snail shell— while her mate stands guard. “What rul ...
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For featherfin cichlids (Cyathopharynx foae), all the world’s a stage. This male has carried 55 pounds of sand, mouthful by mout ...
Rising more than two miles from the base of its glacier to its sum- mit, Pakistan’s K2 is known as the Savage Mountain. For ever ...
DRIVEN BY NATIONAL PRIDE, AN ALL-NEPALI TEAM DID WHAT MANY THOUGHT WAS IMPOSSIBLE: SUMMIT THE WORLD’S SECOND HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN ...
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With a historic winter summit of K2 in his sights, Nims wills his oxygen-starved body upward. He and nine fellow Nepalis endured ...
Mingma Gyalje Sherpa tried to focus the shaky orb of his headlamp on his next few steps, but the cold overwhelmed his thoughts. ...
serious frostbite. That, he knew, was a sign his body was prioritizing blood flow to warm vital organs, sacrificing the extremit ...
B Y 2020 THE NOTION^ of groundbreak- ing mountaineering achievement seemed like an anachronism. Mid- way through the past centur ...
MANY NEPALI MOUNTAINEERS HAD BEEN PART OF GROUNDBREAKING CLIMBS, BUT NO ALL-NEPALI TEAM HAD CLAIMED A HISTORIC FIRST ASCENT ON I ...
Base Camp Reached by Nepali team16,274 ft Dec. 18, 2020 4,960 m Ce sen ro ute 2018 Cesen because NegrottoPass Skilbrum24,147 ft ...
Advanced Base Cam17,060 ft p, Dec. 21 5,200 m Camp I First reached Dec. 2120,013 ft 6,100 m Mingma G.’s first Camp II Dec. 2822, ...
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