Uzman Naleer, The Peak Experience (PLACES WILDERNESS 2022)

I spent 25 days in this wilderness exploring every creek and crevasse, and this photo summarizes the peak of my experience. After 4 days of climbing, I captured this image at dawn which shows the twilight wedge in the distant horizon, a setting moon, and a rising sun. In the center is the star of the show: a volcanic plug rising 5000 meters high with the final remains of a dying glacier at its feet surrounded by valleys carved by previous ice ages.

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