A mountain climber ascends the playfully nicknamed Fickle Finger of Fate summit, a rime-covered, spire-shaped peak in Chilean Patagonia's Cordillera Sarmiento.
Stark, cold, wet, and windy, Patagonia is home to unique creatures with adaptations that help them thrive in an unforgiving region of climatic extremes.
Get a glimpse of paradise with this gallery of photographs taken on assignment for the National Geographic magazine article "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course."
