Your Shot photographer Saulius Damulevicius snapped this picture of Camp 2 while descending Ama Dablam, a mountain in the Himalayas. With its peak reaching 22,349 feet in elevation, Ama Dablam is the third most popular Himalayan mountain for permitted climbing expeditions.

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Your Shot photographer Saulius Damulevicius snapped this picture of Camp 2 while descending Ama Dablam, a mountain in the Himalayas. With its peak reaching 22,349 feet in elevation, Ama Dablam is the third most popular Himalayan mountain for permitted climbing expeditions.
Photograph by Saulius Damulevicius, National Geographic Your Shot

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Every day, we feature an image chosen from thousands submitted to our photo community, Your Shot. Here are some of the month's highlights.

The standout photos from this month did a great job of framing the action in front of them.

While editing through this month's submissions, I felt goosebumps seeing the dizzying heights of that slackliner's webbing or those bikers careening along the sides of a "Wall of Death."

Many of January's top shots captured thrilling moments that exhiliarted our viewers.

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