Nos sens s’éveillaient au rythme de l’éclosion des bourgeons. L’odeur du bois mouillé et des feux de camp nous parvenait déjà. Par-delà nos fenêtres, l’appel des montagnes se faisait particulièrement…
Well, if there was ever a time to get outside and away from it all…. Summer in the Coast Mountains is about ditching the rat race and hiking, paddling, driving,…
It was a rough winter. And it was a rough year all over the globe. Springtime is awesome but the struggle is still real. A slightly more carefree summer is…
Braving the Storm: Brett Tippie’s Prescription for Success words :: Brett Tippie. Braving the storm is something we all must do sometimes. In the midst of this extended pandemic era,…
What can we say about winter in B.C.’s Coast Mountains? Actually, we don’t need to say it, since ML’s photographers have conveyed the beauty, excitement and fragility of the outdoors…
Spending his summers on the Sea to Sky region of British Columbia, Australian adventure sports photographer and Olympus Imaging ambassador Lachie Carracher was constantly blown away by how many bad…
To be an action sports photographer, we recommend three out of four of these defining characteristics: 1. Be an artist; 2. Be a masochist; 3. Be extremely patient; or 4.…
Glaciers don’t rush. Or at least they didn’t used to. During the last Ice Age, glaciers shaped our landscape while crawling, on average, but a few centimetres a day. Today,…
Words & photography :: Mike Grandmaison. Georgian Bay is the northeastern arm of Lake Huron, the fifth-largest lake in the world. Located between Manitoulin Island to the northwest (the world’s…
Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer, a Stanford Media Designer and Executive Director of the Amplifier Foundation. As a photographer, Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines and has been…
Bare-legged, I’d shuffled through the slushy water flowing over the ice surface like a zombie, little but sheer will telling my feet where to go. Anything below the knees had…
If you believe the chatter, the only thing more compelling than the depth and breadth of Ryan Creary’s outdoor photography is that he could easily be the subject of most…
Soul (noun) – 1. The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. 2. A person’s moral or emotional nature or sense of identity. Currently,…
For the Mountain Life Blue Mountains Photo Issue we asked several of our regular photographers to pick a handful of their finest shots, and to tell the stories behind them.…
The 50 Classic Climbs poster is a high-definition reflection of the past, of routes established, well-known features and recognizable names. It’s a full-scale look at the Stawamus Chief and the…
“A lot of the not-for-profits I was working for were doing life-saving, amazing work, but they couldn’t justify spending money on video and photos,” says Da Silva. “I did one…
When I first started looking through a viewfinder, I thought every frame I was lining up was destined for the pages of National Geographic. Even though I didn’t understand ISO,…
The first camera was an eye, the first film memory, and their first subjects the living natural world. Since that time we’ve been trying, one way or another, to record…
When I look back at these images I can remember everything about those days: the smells, the tastes, the calm and the peace of each experience. Words &…