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I’m afraid of heights, but I love rock climbing. To me it’s because I have the opportunity to overcome my personal limitations. I always tell people who call it an “adrenaline sport” that if you are experiencing a rush, you’re doing it wrong. That said, climbing in Yosemite National Park often puts you in positions like this one on top of the Lost Arrow Spire that’ll make you triple check your gear regardless of how experienced you are.
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.