Magnificent Mountain

Mount Everest looms white and jagged in the wash of twilight.

Photograph by Robb Kendrick
From Everest, National Geographic, May 2003

Fast Food

Mayflies, dead and alive, make easy pickings for a hungry kingfisher.

Photograph by József L. Szentpéteri
From Mayflies, National Geographic, May 2003

And Chico Makes Three

Anne Cary Maudslay, wife of English archaeologist Alfred Maudslay, gets a close-up view of an eighth-century Maya stela near at Quiriguá, Guatemala, in 1894. While her husband worked, she kept busy with different things, including a baby squirrel she adopted and named Chico. 


Photograph courtesy the British Museum, London
From Aguateca, National Geographic, May 2003