Photo of the Day
A mass of people lay on a bed of rocks high up in the mountains.
May 22, 2026 | Communist Climb
In this image taken in 1987, young Communists rest at the summit of Rysy—the highest peak in Poland, standing at 8,199 feet. Husband-and-wife photographers John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk documented the climb that commemorated Vladimir Lenin's supposed ascent while in exile in 1913, just years before he founded the Soviet Union. Rysy is part of the High Tatras mountain range, which at the time was located on Poland's border with Czechoslovakia, a country under the Soviet sphere of influence until it was dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1992.
