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Next week marks the 60th anniversary of the historic climb of Mt Everest. On 29 May 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mt Everest. Pictured: On one of the many acclimatisation climbs prior to the attempt on Everest, Hillary stands on the 20,000 ft ridge of Pumori looking across the Khumbo Glacier to Nuptse, just 2km from Mount Everest. Read about Sir Edmund Hillary and his team: http://bit.ly/XsPsG2 Image by Royal Geographical Society.
There are few phenomena in the animal kingdom that assault the senses like the royal penguin colonies of Macquarie Island. The largest host up to a million birds at any one time, and the smell, noise and odour of so many in one space create a correspondingly alarming sensory experience. However, they have a gentler side, illustrated by this pair preening their hatchling. See more of Brett Phibbs' trip to the subantarctic as Photographer of the Year 2011, courtesy of Heritage Expeditions: http://bit.ly/PBHqbz

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Southern Exposure

Southern Exposure presents an original, democratic view of New Zealand. Chosen from 25,000 images shot by more than 1500 photographers over a calendar year, the images in this book represent the best of the New Zealand Geographic group on Flickr—a social media community dedicated to capturing the spirit of the nation.

The photographs were not commissioned, rather 'crowd-sourced' by enthusiastic amateurs going about their business, celebrating family life, recording the play of light upon a subject that was before them, in the own time, in their own way. The images were uploaded to 'the cloud' and voted on by friends who had never met, then ultimately rendered in a technology almost six hundred years old; printed with ink on paper.

This apparently retrograde output format underscores the ongoing affection of readers for the experience of print media, and the kudos it confers upon even the most technologically literate photographers. It is also a dramatic demonstration of the faceted view of a country made possible with social media communities covering a subject from many perspectives and yet contributing to a common product shaped entirely by their work.

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