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Exploring the Amazon was always a dream of mine, so when I found myself on a job in Peru I knew I needed to take time to go hike through the jungle. Here, my guide is helping me look for anaconda in a seldom-visited swamp near Tambopata. We didn’t find any, and I’m not sure what we would have done if we had.
Editor’s Note: Ben Horton has gotten around. As a National Geographic photographer he’s covered every sort of adventure from diving with sharks off the Costa Rican coastline to dogsledding on Ellesmere Island. And he wants you to go, too. And if you don’t go to the arctic, or the Brazilian rainforest, maybe his imagery will inspire you to go somewhere you’ve been meaning to for a long time. Even if it’s just to the other side of the state you’re living in. Horton gives us the story behind nine of his favorite images from the last half decade or so. Images that represent a deep love of our planet, and protecting it.