Richards speaking at The Cooler Earth Sustainability Summit held in Kuala Lumpur recently. Behind him is the selfie that he took after coming out alive from an avalanche. The image was featured on the cover of National Geographic. — CIMB Malaysia
Apparently, you can take a selfie and it can get you on the cover of National Geographic, extreme adventurer Cory Richards said with a straight face.
The audience before him broke out in a chorus of laughter.
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Gallery: Cory Richards, National Geographic photographer and environmental advocate
Richards speaking at The Cooler Earth Sustainability Summit held in Kuala Lumpur recently. Behind him is the selfie that he took after coming out alive from an avalanche. The image was featured on the cover of National Geographic. — CIMB Malaysia
A lone polar bear searching for food in the waters of Franz Josef Land, a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. — Cory Richards
Climbing, says Richards, was a way for him to give voice to the angst, anxiety and frustration that he felt when he was young. — The Star/Art Chen
A climber ascending a fixed rope on a first ascent of Bertha’s Tower in Antarctica. — Cory Richards
An expedition team making their way to Nepal’s 'Sky Caves', a 2,000-year-old hand-carved cave system towering hundreds of metres above the valley floor. — Cory Richards
Rancher Hilary Anderson at Tom Miner Basin, north of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.— Cory Richards
The 16th century Stakna Gompa Buddhist monastery against the backdrop of the Himalayas in Ladakh, India. — Cory Richards
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