Contest Photos: 10

Album: Photo Contest 03-09

Added: 1077 Days Ago

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Tags: leopard,snowstorm

Description: Stalking India's Hemis National Park, a snow leopard lives up to its name in U.S. "This is the hardest story I have ever done because of the altitude and the steepness of the mountains," the U.S. photographer told National Geographic. "At night it was 30 below zero [Fahrenheit]." Over ten months Winter's 14 "camera traps" shot more than 30,000 frames in pursuit of the endangered cat. As few as 3,500 snow leopards remain in the wild.