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A ski tourer in a red jacket with a backpack climbing a broad snow slope on skins, a vast snow-covered range rising behind under scattered cloud.

The Long Way Up

New Zealand · June 2018

iPhone X, 4 millimetres, f 1.8, 1/1250 of a second, ISO 20

Earning it.

Nobody photographs the climb, which is odd, because the climb is most of the day. One figure in red against a lot of white, walking uphill for the thing that takes four minutes at the other end.

Part of The Southern Alps, a series.