Grounded Print Type:Metal Print The image reads like it

The image reads like it could have been taken in 1974 — black and white

The Mentawai Islands sit off the west coast of Sumatra

a place often called the quietest in the continental U

and early-morning stillness

The arch is what most people come for — a hollowed-out passage between two beaches

Grounded Print Type:Metal Print The image reads like itA US Navy Douglas C 117D a militarized variant of the DC 3 that ran out of fuel and crash landed on the black sand at Slheimasandur on November 21, 1973. All seven crew survived. The Navy stripped the plane of anything useful and left the empty husk in the sand, two and a half miles from the nearest road. It's been there ever since. Max shoots at last light, a single figure on the fuselage.