A two-person, two-week, mid-winter ski traverse of the Hardangervidda mountain plateau in Norway.

"Quick now, here, now, always -
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)"
-T.S. Eliot

Photos from a NASA expedition to study high-altitude lakes in the Chilean altiplano.

“We live as if in a foreign land, the soil consecrated to spirits we don’t know,
who do not know us. We are blind, yet a brilliance flies through us, angled,
belated, last of the butterfly days.”
-Melissa Kwasny

Safari expedition to the Masai Mara in Kenya.

"To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure.
We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities."
-Virginia Woolf

Smattering of photos from expeditions and encounters around the world.

"The vision comes and goes, mostly goes. But I live for it, for the moment
when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack,
and the mountains slam. "
-Annie Dillard