Every day, we feature an image chosen from thousands submitted to our photo community, Your Shot. Here are some highlights from January.
TAKE A PEAK Your Shot photographer Saulius Damulevicius snapped this picture of Camp 2 while descending Ama Dablam, a mountain in the Himalayas. With its peak reaching 22,349 feet in elevation, Ama Dablam is the third most popular Himalayan mountain for permitted climbing expeditions.
PHOTOGRAPH BY SAULIUS DAMULEVICIUS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
WALK THE LINE A slackliner walks a highline over Navagio Beach in Zakythos, Greece. Slacklining is a sport involving a flat rope strung between two points, often with less tension than a tightrope. Those who walk across wear harnesses connected to the slackline, to catch them in the event of a fall.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AIDAN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
FOX HUNT An Arctic fox pauses on the ice while on the lookout for food. Smart foxes tail polar bears, hoping to claim their leftovers for dinner.
PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED LEMIRE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
NIGHT MARKET A night market, called Talad Nud Rod Fai, bustles in Bangkok, Thailand, behind the large Esplanade shopping center. Open only in the evening and into the night, the market offers food stands and discounted goods for crowds of tourists and locals alike.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AOTARO, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
STORM BELOW A summer storm settles in over Beijing, China. Your Shot photographer Qing Hu captured this dramatic scene by using a long exposure of three seconds.
PHOTOGRAPH BY QING HU, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
DRAGON FIGHT Two male Komodo dragons fight on the beaches of Komodo Island, Indonesia. They’re likely competing for the chance to mate with a female dragon; only one will be victorious.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID SOMALI-CHOW, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
WALL OF DEATH The Sonepur Cattle Fair in Patna, India, features an enormous cylindrical structure known as the “Wall of Death.” From above, spectators watch as adventurous men and women drive vehicles at high speed around the walls, eventually riding parallel to the ground.
PHOTOGRAPH BY SUDIPTA MALLICK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
ICE TUBE Mer de Glace is a glacier in the French Alps. Here, adventurers climb up a moulin, a vertical shaft inside of the glacier, to emerge back on top.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MATHIS DUMAS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
CORMORANT FISHERMEN On an autumn evening in Guilin, China, two fishermen and their trained cormorants rest on their rafts. Cormorant fishing is a Chinese tradition that goes back more than 1,000 years. The fishermen tie small snares around the cormorants’ necks. The bird leaves its post, catches a fish in its beak but can’t swallow it, and then returns to the boat, where the fisherman retrieves the catch.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KOS KARATHANASIS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT
