Matt Feldman Photography
In the Atacama Desert of Bolivia, distant clouds gather above a peak. It’s high altitude and very very dry.
The dunes of Mongolia, a few hours drive from Dalanzadgad.
Two hours from Christchurch, through low, grass-covered hills, we swing around a bend. The road stretches out across a massive plain of grass and flowers and sparse trees, sliced in two by the grey road — a straight shot that stretches out until it disappears at the base of the Southern Alps.
The craggy, green emptiness of the Gobi, in a National Park a few hours from Dalanzadgad.
The site of the fifth highest annual rainfall anywhere on the planet, Milford Sound sees some 9 m (30 feet) of rain pour from the sky each year. And most of it seems to be coming down tonight. After driving through places like “Devil’s Staircase Bluff,” so many rivers that they’re numbered rather than named.