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Famed Brazilian photographer’s dramatic depictions of the Amazon rainforest and its people document the ‘planet’s lungs’ in all their majesty

How does Western behaviour risk turning the Amazonian paradise into a hell?. Visual arts interview by Rachel Halliburton

Twenty years ago three British explorers climbed a remote plateau in Amazonian Brazil on a quest to discover the geographical inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel, The Lost World.Published in 1912, it is still the definite story of man-meets-dinosaurs. It has spawned at least five movies, a TV series and has been imitated across various media ever since.

Anna Taylor, from Cumbria, climbed routes listed in Ken Wilson's renowned guidebook Classic Rock.

Whether it’s exploring the rainforests of Brazil, viewing the Atacama Desert from above by hot air balloon, immersing yourself in Ecuador’s Chocolate Trail or experiencing the sights and sounds of Whether it’s exploring the rainforests of Brazil, viewing the Atacama Desert from above by hot air balloon, immersing yourself in Ecuador’s Chocolate Trail or experiencing the sights and sounds of Mexico in an action packed tour, 2016 has something for everyone with this round up of Member hig...

The tip of the Spanish mainland at Tarifa is among Davids favourite wild places in the world IN the beginning they existed only in my boyhood imagination. I was always the dreamer back then and in my mind’s eye I could see them but not yet reach out and touch them. Snowy mountains like citadels, parched undulating deserts, windswept seas and skies full of stars, always the stars, these were the landscapes of those early dreams. Who really knows where our love of wild, untamed and elementa...

The rain is so intense in Serra do Divisor National Park that it looks like an atomic mushroom cloud. State of Acre, 2016. All images © Sebastião Salgado, courtesy of Taschen, shared with permission Photographer Sebastião Salgado spent six years immersed in the Brazilian Amazon as he documented the world’s largest tropical rainforest in black-and-white. From wide, aerial shots framing the vegetation populating the landscape to sincere portraits of Indigenous peoples living throughout the r...

Top 10 Magical Images Of Mysterious Locations It’s 2021 and the world has changed. But the beauty of Earth’s most mysterious locations remains. These places are steeped in history and legend and make for mesmerizing photographs. Some which are easily accessible have become tourist fodder, while the ones that are harder to reach remain somewhat hidden away except for a series of images taken and posted online by a brave explorer. On this list are just some of the mysterious places around the...

Kaushik Patowary May 11, 2013 18 comments Tepuis are flat table-top mountains found in the Guayana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela. In the language of the Pemon people who live in the Gran Sabana, Tepui means ‘House of the Gods’ due to their height. Tepuis tend to be found as isolated entities rather than in connected ranges, which makes them host to hundreds of endemic plant and animal species, some of which are found only on one tepui. Towering over the surrounding fo...

Khara Salt Lake, Iran  Just over 100km from Esfahan, Varzaneh is possibly the only place where on approach you can see three natural phenomena together – sand dunes, shimmering in the sun, on the white surface of the salt lake, the wetlands and a volcanic mountain rising in the middle. © Maria Oleynik Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Officially the hottest place in the world, and the lowest point on the African continent, the Danakil Depression, a volcanically hyperactive stretch of the northe...