Human Activity

This wide, panoramic color photograph depicts an expansive winter scene. In the background is a mountain range stretching across the photo frame from left to right, hazily silhouetted in blue-grey against the light blue sky, with clouds between the mountain peaks on the right side of the range. Snowy glaciers are visible on some of the peaks but not all. Immediately visible below the mountain range is the edge of a conifer forest, also stretching across the photo frame from left to right. The bottom half of the photo consists of a large open snow-covered field. In the foreground on the bottom left is a person with a long white winter coat, a brown winter cap and dark snow pants, with their back turned towards the camera, riding on a wooden dog sled with a cargo load covered by a red material. The sled is being pulled by a pack of six pairs of sled dogs, running across the snow from left to right. The sled is heading down an apparent trail towards two people standing on the right-hand side of the photo, wearing red jackets, standing next to bulky cargo packs.