"Waterfall ice is unbelievably beautiful. Unlike the surface of a frozen lake or the cubes dispensed by your freezer, its shapes are endless and varied, from bulging and organic to thin and fragile like blown glass. Ice climbers like Jared [pictured] pick their way up fangs, arêtes, curtains, pillars, all the while calculating the inevitable melt and collapse that will come on another day."
—West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro

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Camera: Mamiya 645AFD
Film: Agfa Scala
Lens: 45 mm
Speed and F-Stop: 1/180 @ f/4.0

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