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A pair of hikers climbing a boulder-strewn pass in Alaska
May 12, 2012

Arrigetch Peaks, Alaska

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Arrigetch Peaks, August 23, 2010
"These teeter-tottering granite boulders all wanted to slide," Andrew Skurka says of a talus-covered pass in the central Brooks Range, where his friend Roman Dial joined him.

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Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown, National Geographic

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