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Gordon Wiltsie

Alex Lowe (left) and Conrad Anker (right) – on the peak of Mt Evans, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. The pair were best friends, who each found the rare ability to keep up with the other in the mountains.

Conrad Anker watches Alex Lowe mug for the camera whilst washing his hair, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1997.

Alex Lowe and Conrad Anker exult after making the first ascent of the Rakekniven ('Razor') spire, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

Celebrating Christmas with cards and letters from the family left at home: Alex Lowe (left) and Conrad Anker (centre) on a National Geographic expedition to Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1997.

Alex Lowe leads an ascent of the north wall of Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, on a National Geographic expedition in 1998.

In the late 1990s a six-man expedition team explored and climbed uncharted portions of Antarctica. Here, the crew celebrates Christmas Day by exchanging cards.

A chinstrap penguin gazes out from the rocky coast of King George Island in Antarctica.

Alex Lowe (left) shares a card from home with members of his climbing team on Christmas Day, 1997 in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The six-man team made the first ascent of Rakekniven, “The Razor”, which jutted nearly 700 metres (2,000 vertical feet) out of the icecap. Bad weather kept the expedition on the ground for more than a week after Christmas, but on January 3, the team summited.

Carved into rose-colored rock in Jordan, the ancient city of Petra shows architectural influences from Greece, Egypt, Rome, Syria, and multiple North African cultures. Unsustainable tourism, flash floods, rockfalls, and erosion threaten the site.