PHOTO OF THE DAY July 25, 2004  

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Where Serendipity Peak, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Heli-hikers huddle as their ride touches down. Hikers are ferried between alpine trails in matters of minutes, whizzing across terrain that would take full days of hard hiking to cover on foot.

(Photograph from "Wilderness by Air," July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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