Photographer Page

Bill Hatcher

A runner's shadow against the blur of Aspen leaves in Colorado. Recreational running, with or without a competitive component, is popular and has both physical and psychological benefits. Those include preventing obesity, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. Running also boosted a sense of well-being by decreasing depression, anger, confusion, tension, and fatigue.

Climbers establish Hanging Camp at 19,500 feet on Trango Tower, in Pakistan's Karakoram mountains. This story from the April 1996 issue followed a group of climbers from Wyoming who spent nine weeks scaling the vertical rock face.

A ringtailed possum climbs a tree in Mount Field National Park in Tasmania.

When frankincense trees are cut, the sap that oozes out hardens into valuable resin. Experts worry that frankincense trees are being cut too much and too often.

Climbing ice-encrusted limestone is careful work in Box Canyon in Ouray, Colorado. During the summer a 285-foot (87-metre) waterfall awes visitors, but in the winter ice and climbing enthusiasts take over.

Rainbows are mostly experienced as semicircles, but an airborne view allows viewers to see a full circle. This rainbow spanning the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, during a rainstorm offers a hint of its arc’s full extent.

Straddling the Nevada-Utah border, Great Basin National Park is known for its glacier-sculpted landscape, the 13,000-foot (3,900-metre) Mount Wheeler, and ancient bristlecone pines.

Four animals that face increased risk of extinction as temperatures rise include Australia’s yellow-footed rock-wallaby, golden-shouldered parrot and Lumholtz tree-kangaroo, and New Zealand’s lizard-like tuatara.