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At the northern end of South Africa's Drakensberg range, a curving wall of sheet cliffs soars skywards above grass-covered plains. Known as the Amphitheatre, the towering crescent forms the precipitous edge of Mont-aux-Sources, a boggy and misty plateau overlooked by a ...

From the green of the surrounding farmland, with its vast stretches of nodding grain, you come abruptly upon the Badlands of South Dakota. The arid hills and ridges do not rise from the plain - they stand below it, like a ...

One of Nature's most spectacular creations lies beneath South Africa's Swartberg Range: a cavernous world of limestone formation, lakes, deep, pits and interconnecting tunnels. This fairyland of glittering crystal shapes forms one of the world's most varied underground cave sequences - ...

Like building blocks piled up by some gigantic infant, granite boulders perch perilously on top of another. Giant granite marbles poise on smooth granite domes as if a gentle push would set them in motion. This astonishing boulder land is the ...

An architectural fantasy of sandstone and limestone the spires and pinnacles of Bryce Canyon rise from its shadowed depths like the disinterred ruins of an ancient city. When an American surveyor named T.C. Bailey first set eyes on the beautiful and ...

A giant white plume of steam and gas rises almost continuously from the crater of Mount Ngauruhoe, a 7516ft (2291m) volcano in the heart of New Zealand's North Island. It is one of a trio of active volcanoes. To the north ...

Rising like an island from a sea of pastureland. Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont often seems like a mirage - sometimes there, sometimes not. On the southwest coast of New Zealand's North Island, mist and clouds often hide the mountain completely. ...

A vast and varied wilderness lies in the extreme north of Australia, the region Australians call the Top End, Kakadu National Park is twice the size of Dubai, and its landscape, as well as varying from place to place, also changes ...

Dusk on a still day is the best time to appreciate Milford Sound (also known as Piopiotahi). Mist tips the mountain peaks that rise steeply from the water edge and are mirrored in the motionless blue of the sea. Captain James ...

On Vatnajokull, Iceland's massive ice sheet, there is nearly as much ice as on all Europe's other glaciers put together. It covers an area almost half the size of Wales or New Jersey and pushes out a dozen major glaciers from ...

Rising in the Czech Republic, the River Elbe enters Germany via a deep and shadowy gorge sliced through the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), then flows to the North sea. For most of its 720 miles (1160 km) the river is intensely serious. ...

The massive bulk of Benbulbin sits like the upturned hull of a ship amid Sligo's stonewalled pastures. Near the mountain top, the steep slopes give way abruptly to cliffs - sculpted by the weather to resemble a concertina - that rim ...