Climb by Marc Adamus

Climb by Marc Adamus

In September of this year I lead a group on a 50km long backpacking trip mostly off trail through some of the wildest and most rugged terrain the Yukon has to offer. Instead of using helicopters we went in on foot, and to many places in the range that I’d never seen photographed before. It was an epic and memorable trip, but the weather ended up being very fickle and difficult to deal with. By this point, however, I was in the midst of a love affair with this location and I simply would not be denied. Therefore, upon hiking out for a few days and saying goodbye to our group I took 12 hours off, met up with a friend and re-packed my 85-pound photo pack for another two week long trip right back to the same locations I had just come from, this time in the falling snow! It took me 3 days to reach these places and what turned out to be many, many more. Aurora’s danced overhead most nights and new snow came and cleared. Here, I was scrambling a jagged ridgeline looking for a route, otherwise known as a do-not-fall zone. At this moment a snow squall was blowing through and the day had already been full of amazing atmosphere, with clouds from rains below still rising in the late afternoon sun. I snapped a few frames before the sun appeared fully in the frame with a 14mm and here you have it. Thanks for looking.

Marc Adamus: Photos