Climber, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, NatGeo

Stunning image from National Geographic’s Picture of the Day of a Climber by Cory Richards.

Photograph by Cory Richards.

From http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/climber-antarctica-richards/ :

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Climber, Queen Maud Land

Photograph by Cory Richards

This Month in Photo of the Day: The Power of Photography

Suspended from an anchor in the rock hundreds of feet above the ice and snow, Mike Libecki hauls himself up a granite tower in Antarctica’s remote Queen Maud Land.

See more pictures from the September 2013 feature story “Untamed Antarctica.”