PICHA: SHEREHE ZA MIAKA 125 YA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE.
Breathtaking: 2010, Dzitnup, Mexico - Stalactites dangle above a swimmer
spotlit by a single sunbeam in the Xkeken cenote, a natural well in the
Yucatán thought by the Maya to lead to the underworld
Yee haw! Texas, 1939. A cowgirl dropped a nickel
in a parking meter to hitch her pony. When this photo
Chilling: China, 2011 - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
checks the ropes the team has spent weeks fixing along the entire route,
amounting to 9,000 feet of rope in all
Humanity: Mumbai, India, 2011 - Seeking to
capture the throng in Churchgate Station, Randy Olson coached a local
assistant through the laborious process needed to get this shot, because
the perfect vantage point was closed to foreigners
Heartbreaking: Afghanistan, 2010 - Noor Nisa,
about 18, was pregnant, and her water had just broken. Her husband was
determined to get her to the hospital, but his car broke down, and he
went to find another vehicle. The photographer ended up taking Noor
Nisa, her mother and her husband to the hospital
The stunning photos presented here represent some of the best in NGS’s 125 year history.
Desperation: Kuwait, 1991 - Lit by burning oil
fields during the Gulf War, camels forage desperately for shrubs and
water in southern Kuwait. Front-line photographs of regions ravaged by
human strife can also illuminate war's environmental cost
Connection: Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1990
- Jou Jou, a captive chimpanzee, reaches out it's hand to the head of
legendary primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall
Cloaked in the snows of California’s Sierra
Nevada, the 3,200-year-old giant sequoia called the President rises 247
feet (left) meanshile Steve McCurry's iconic photograph of a young
Afghan girl in a Pakistan refugee camp in 1985 became the most famous
cover image in the magazine's history
King of the jungle: UGANDA, 2011 - A lion climbs
a tree to sleep, in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth Park as a photographer
interrupts his slumber with a light
Celebration: The 125th
anniversary of National Geographic magazine celebrates the society's
groundbreaking past, present, and future in photojournalism
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