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How can we help protect places like this when we are not there or live far away? Our pocketbooks are powerful tools if we team up with the right collaborators. The @bankofthewest 1% for the Planet Checking account donates 1% of the account’s net revenue to environmental nonprofits through @1percentftp, so you can put your money to work whether you're sleeping or looking up at the stars. #sponsored #nature #timelapse #wilderness #skyfullofstars #astrophotography

The calm before the storm. I am excited to share some of my work from #SeeingSilence tonight at the #bookworm in Edwards/Vail valley. #antarctica #ice #nature #sonyalpha 📷 #petemcbride #fineart

Sculpting a canyon. I’m excited to report that a story I shot and wrote about quiet places for @smithsonianmagazine - which led to my latest book #seeingsilence - just won a @societyofamericantravelwriters Lowell Thomas award. #grateful to do what I love - and tell stories, no matter how hard they may be. #humbled 📷 #coloradoriver #grandcanyon #water #light #nature by #petemcbride @sonyalpha

Floating through the ancient songs of a jungle. An outtake from my book #seeingsilence snapped in Fiji’s Upper Navua River — an amazing community conservation model thanks to many including @oars_rafting. To find book and see more, check link in my bio. #riverofeden #fiji #conservation #water #happyfriday everyone.

Very excited for my friends and fellow filmmakers @jimmychin and @chaivasarhelyi who are releasing their new feature film this weekend! THE RESCUE tells the against-all-odds story of the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand. @therescuefilm shines a light on the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys. ⁣
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Visit www.therescue.film for tickets and to find a screening near you starting tomorrow, Friday, October 15. #TheRescueFilm

Thanks Autumn - always appreciated even if your time in the mountains is short. #color #fall #rockies #nature #winterisknocking #prayforsnow #sonyalpha 📷 by #petemcbride

In my time in the Grand Canyon, I’ve often heard visitors ask while looking at artifacts, ancient tools or buildings, “Where did all these people go?”

I often respond, right here. There are 11 Native American tribal communities that live in and around the Grand Canyon and the land remains revered and sacred to them, like it has for centuries. The same holds true for so many landscapes of interest across North America. Happy #indigenouspeoplesday #native #indigenous #grandcanyon #land #water #air 📷 1. Navajo leader Renae YellowHorse 2. Save the confluence gathering 3. Havasupai uranium protest 4. 4,000-year-old Ancient Pueblo-an polychrome panting 5. Sacred confluence

It is wonderful to know this landscape and others will remain natural and cultural sites for generations to come. Protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Monuments were restored last Friday. I’ve had the privilege to work with and witness the efforts of many remarkable native leaders and others who helped make this a reality. Thanks to those who speak up for the wild places that don’t have voices at the table, including @timmydp with @grandcanyontrust who snapped this unique image of Bears Ears. More work ahead to balance tourism and other interests, but a big step for land and cultural #conservation #bearsears #native

Running a river running dry: Last month my friend @lennecefer and I pack-rafted the Yampa river at record low water for @NatGeo. Our goal was to travel the last 50 miles of the river through Dinosaur National Monument, to see how even a wild river inside a national park was struggling to stay wet. The trip would foreshadow what might be to come for many western rivers as the climate changes. With only a few small dams and diversions, the 250-mile-long Yampa is one of just a few free-flowing rivers in the United States and the longest in Colorado. The journey was eye-opening, even for me who has spent years looking at water shortage. But it was also hopeful as I learned how creative collaboration can keep a river alive — barely. Check out the link in my bio to read the story/ see the picks. #water #rivers #drought #Dinosaur #nature #climate #climatechange. Thanks @alpacka_raft for the amazing boats and…. um…Sorry about the “scuff marks”. Talk to Len. 😉.

Ode to the Orca: I am excited to start sharing a cover story I wrote and shot for @smithsonianmagazine about the underwater world of orca in the Norwegian Arctic coming out this month. A few outtakes from the assignment … and my book. More to come. Thx
@arctic_freediving @valhallaorcaexpedition @norwegianorcasurvey for support of this story. #orca #norway #ocean #conservation #nature #seeingsilence

Grateful: Thanks for all the interest and support for my new project on quiet, and the magical sounds of our natural world. My book “Seeing Silence” came out today and thanks to you, it’s made a few whispers. For you radio folks out there, I’ll be talking about the wonders of nature’s jukebox on @npr 1A at 9:20 mdt/ 11:20 ET.
#grateful #SeeingSilence 📷 by #petemcbride 1. Namibia 2. Antarctica 3. Himalaya 4. Amazon 5. Kenya

That season thing… never gets old. Thanks trees. #aspens #fall #color #mountains #rockies 📷 #petemcbride

I am psyched that my new book, “Seeing Silence” will be out next week. (Link in bio). In a world ever-more congested with both toxins and noise, this collection of images spanning two decades of my work, will take you on an escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. After studying the world for years as a photographer & filmmaker, I've realized that the least appreciated and often hardest-to-document marvels are not the breathtaking vistas I chase with my camera but the blanket of calm that surrounds them — the choir of croaking frogs, the applause of rain on rock, the notes of wings and wind.

Thank you @erikweihenmayer and #billMikken for writing intros, @hightowercreative for editing my essays, @wanderingadult for all the logistical imagery help and @rizzolibooks for bringing it all together.
“Silence is the think tank of the soul,” says my friend and sound ecologist Gordon Hempton in the book.
To get your copy, click the link in my bio or go to my website petemcbride.com
📷 1. Cover 2. Bolivia 3. Colorado 4. Kenya 5. Bhutan 6. Everest’s “Valley of Silence”
#seeingsilence #seeingsilencebook #grateful #nature #travel

I have spent years sweating and gasping my way to vistas like these at 16,000 feet in Bhutan - because the hard-earned images always mean more.

“Across seven continents, from North to South poles, McBride has artfully zoomed his camera lenses at scores of exquisitely singular spots, some of which are virgin terrain, where no other photographer has tread.”
Thanks @forbes for the nice words about the effort behind my new book “Seeing Silence” out later this month. Review in my bio link. #seeingsilence #photography #mountains #unplublished 📷 by #petemcbride of #bhutan 230-mile #Snowmantrek for @natgeo

Transition: Nothing like the seasons to make you reflect —and look ahead. #fall #seeingsilence #colorful #sonyalpha 📷 #petemcbride

To my nieces as you spread your wings: Use your strength and courage to explore — not to feel big, but to always feel small amidst the wonders of our world. I had the privilege recently to take two of my nieces
@riley.puckett, @lucy_mcbride1 up a 14,000 foot peak this weekend with my ‘old goat’ brother and a friend @teagueam. Every year we venture into these lofty realms and look for our favorite wild goat “George” who resides in those parts. He said hi and carried on.

#grateful #mountains #nature #humility #family #Love #goats

Lifelines of light and water. 7:22 A.M. 12,000 ft somewhere in my favorite hills with family. #light #mountains

My 9/11 story / caption.
Remembrance: A penpal story-- twenty Years ago: I was preparing to leave for Tripoli, Libya for an assignment for @natgeo to take a camel train across the Libyan desert on a salt trading route. My bags and cameras were packed. I had even purchased a camel.
But when I awoke, the world had changed by a horrific act of evil that haunts so many today. For obvious reasons, my assignment was cancelled. As I sat glued to the T.V., horrified and confused by the tragedy unfolding, paralyzed with a swirl of emotions, my email beeped. Subject: To Mr. Peter. From friend Hamoudi. It read, “Mr. Peter, please know I am very sorry for tragedy. This is not my religion. My prayers to you, New York, the world.” Hamoudi is a bedouin who lives near Petra in Jordan and he worked as my translator on a story I had done just months earlier. After 9/11 occurred, he rode his camel all day, from his village through Petra to the nearest town, found a college student who could write in English and shared that message. I'll never forget it. It will always be a reminder that there is amazing goodness and good people in the world, no matter their home or background. So when I think of this day, I remember the horror but also the remarkable bravery and humanity that spread throughout not just the United States, but the world. I hope we can all remember that as we move forward on our shared planet. 📷 1. Hamoudi 2. Petra 3. The iconic historic slide of 9/11 by my friend @robertclarkphoto #remembering9/11 #love

I was lucky to experience the wild soul of Marc André Leclerc in “The Alpinist,” the newest feature documentary from my friends at @senderfilms, at an early screening last night. This incredibly powerful and moving film begins its U.S. theatrical run this weekend — international release coming soon. Check out the synopsis below and find a showing near you at thealpinistfilm.com.

“As the sport of climbing turns from a niche pursuit to mainstream media event, Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. On remote alpine faces, the free-spirited 23-year-old makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. Yet, he draws scant attention. With no cameras, no rope, and no margin for error, Marc-André’s approach is the essence of solo adventure.

Intrigued by these quiet accomplishments, veteran filmmaker Peter Mortimer (The Dawn Wall) sets out to make a film about Marc-André. But the Canadian soloist is an elusive subject: nomadic and publicity shy, he doesn’t own a phone or car, and is reluctant to let the film crew in on his pure vision of climbing. As Peter struggles to keep up, Marc-Andrés climbs grow bigger and more daring. Elite climbers are amazed by his accomplishments, while others worry that he is risking too much.

Then, Marc-André embarks on a historic adventure in Patagonia that will redefine what is possible in solo climbing. THE ALPINIST is an intimate documentary of a visionary climber who follows the path of his own passion, despite the heaviest of possible consequences.”

Dog days of summer: I can’t believe my niece, who loves the stargazing as much as I, is off to college. Good luck to all those headed back to school. Very excited that my new book #SeeingSilence with @rizzolibooks comes out later this month. It features quiet moments like this one and many others from around the world spanning two decades of my photography career. To read an excerpt from the book featured in the latest issue of @nature_org, check out the link in my bio. #Silence #nightsky #family #love #nature #sonyalpha 📷 #petemcbride

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