BACKGROUND

<n>Alone</n> by photographer <n>Ruairidh McGlynn</n>.

Photograph of <n>Machapuchare</n> mountain by <n>Yoshikazu Shirakawa</n> from his 1971 book, <n>HIMALAYAS</n>.

From the photographic essay <n>Reimagining Our Disconnected Relationship with Nature</n> by <n>Nicholas X Bent</n>.

<n>Moon Mountain</n>, a 2015 collage on paper by artist <n>Robin Whatley</n>.

The <n>Peacock I</n> tree in the Fanal forest of Madeira, Portugal. Photo by <n>Elaine Li</n>.

Cover of <n>Summit Magazine</n>, September 1970.

Mountaineer <n>Gaston Rébuffat</n> climbing in the Alps.

<n>Milla Jovovich</n> for the <n>Strenesse</n> Fall/Winter 1997 campaign, photographed by <n>Juergen Teller</n>.

Digital collage by architect and illustrator <n>Nick Stath</n>.

A tree in the <n>Fanal Forest</n> in Madeira, Portugal. Shared by <n>Sony France</n>.

<n>Fanal Forest</n> in Madeira, Portugal. Photo by <n>Reiner Hofer</n>.

A collage featuring a photograph of <n>Mount Damavand</n> in Iran.

<n>Jihye Park</n>'s solo exhibition, <n>A mountain is a mountain is a mountain</n>, at <n>landdd</n> in Seoul, 2023.

<n>Edmund Hillary</n> and <n>Tenzing Norgay</n>'s 1953 Everest ascent. Photo by the <n>Royal Geographical Society</n>.

An illustration from the <n>Camp 7 catalog</n>, 1975.