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Khumbu Icefall, Nepal, 1999

Heading for camp one, climber Chris Binggeli negotiates a crevasse in Mount Everest's Khumbu Icefall.

Says the photographer: "It's terrifying to shoot on the icefall. The glacier is constantly shifting underneath. You just have to keep moving or you risk being squashed."

(Photographed on assignment for the 1999 Everest/K2 Expedition, sponsored in part by the National Geographic Expeditions Council)

Photograph by Bobby Model

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