Astronaut Platypi

From National Geographic Photo Of The Day; May 16, 2012: Tsingy Climbing, Madagascar Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic Climber John “Razor Sharp” Benson weaves through skin-ripping pinnacles. In Malagasy, the formations are called tsingy, meaning “where one cannot walk barefoot.” The terrain resists intrusions from hunters, hungry cattle, and wildfires. See more pictures from the November 2009 feature story ”Living on a Razor’s Edge.”

From National Geographic Photo Of The Day; May 16, 2012:

Tsingy Climbing, Madagascar Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic

Climber John “Razor Sharp” Benson weaves through skin-ripping pinnacles. In Malagasy, the formations are called tsingy, meaning “where one cannot walk barefoot.” The terrain resists intrusions from hunters, hungry cattle, and wildfires.

See more pictures from the November 2009 feature story ”Living on a Razor’s Edge.”

(via geologise)

Cinque-Terre

Cinque-Terre

They slipped briskly into an intimacy
from which they never recovered.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald