One by Marc Adamus

One by Marc Adamus

There are few places that have ever truly left me speechless. This was one of them. Kate’s Needle is the name of this peak, and all I can say is it’s a good thing I am a photographer. Northern British Columbia is the place, and this valley…I would bet it has never been photographed before, certainly not seriously or from this perspective. The remoteness here is not surpassed anywhere on the continent. The peak, it rises 3000 meters vertically from the stream you see running below. Some of my most memorable treks, including a month long solo, took place among the glacial giants of this range like Chutine, Ratz, Burkett and the Devil’s Thumb. But Kate stands by herself, the southern beacon of the range, her summit piercing the sky. Access to this valley on foot proved incredibly difficult so I had never come by here before doing two helicopter scouting trips earlier this year, nearly 3 hours each. This scene is too wide to see on Google Earth and too thick with brush to allow much photography from the ground. But here I was, and never could I have imagined what I would see. In two decades as a professional landscape photographer this was perhaps the most memorable natural composition I have ever come across. I will take more trips here again in the future, hopefully to stay a while longer! Hope you enjoy.

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