Monolith Kalahari Ben took the high road

Ben took the high road for once

Fjallabak Nature Reserve sits in Iceland's central highlands

The water here is unusually clear by Southern California standards

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

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

Monolith Kalahari Ben took the high roadTamara 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.