The Stories Behind the Shots: Vol. 1
Four Images That Define Adventure
The stories behind four images from our Wall Art Print collection that transform moments of exploration and adventure into captivating works of art. For a limited time, during the 2025 Bring the Adventure Home Sale, every print featured here — and every print in our gallery — is 35% off. If you’ve ever wanted to bring a piece of adventure home, this is the moment.
WHEN ADVENTURE BECOMES ART
Every great adventure starts with uncertainty, but it’s the breakthrough moments that define the story. Weather breaks. Snow settles. Light shifts. A ridge appears through fog. Across countless expeditions, those brief windows are where everything comes together: the physical grit, the technical skill, the creative instinct, and a little bit of luck.
The four images featured here — White Room, Skiing Nirvana, Teton Solar Eclipse, and From the Road — each tell a story born from that intersection. They are not just photographs; they are distilled experiences, forged in the wild, carried through risk, patience, and the relentless pursuit of the right moment.
WHITE ROOM
In Haines, Alaska storms don’t simply “roll through” — they bury mountains for days at a time. During a spring Alaskan expedition with Teton Gravity Research, the team spent nearly a week grounded as heavy snow kept them from skiing. When the skies finally cracked open, everything changed.
The crew helicoptered into a world transformed: deep, untouched powder stretching across the iconic faces of the Chilkat Range. As the late, legendary pro big mountain skier Erik Roner prepped a descent, Mark Fisher positioned himself low on the slope, anticipating exactly where Erik would drop off a ridge for maximum impact. And when Erik came, he disappeared, swallowed whole by some of the deepest powder anyone on the team had ever experienced.
Mark shot the moment with a 70–200mm lens, compressing the scene and accentuating the contrast of sky against snow. He later transformed the already-surreal image into black and white, leaning into the starkness of the Alaskan landscape. It’s more than a powder shot; it’s a tribute to friendship, instinct, and the wild payoff that comes when patience meets perfect conditions.
SKIING NIRVANA
Some days in the mountains feel like a gift: rare, perfect, impossible to recreate. The winter of 2011 brought one of those days. Alaska’s Chugach Range had been pummeled by storm after storm, stacking layer upon layer of pristine powder. Mark and the team chartered their now-late friend, heli-pilot and snowboard guide Cristian Cabanilla, to fly them deep into the range for two days that would become legendary among the crew.
They were the only skiers in the entire Chugach that day. No tracks. No noise. Just endless powder glowing under an Arctic sunset.
As professional skier Todd Ligare descended down Pyramid Peak, he was floating — weightless, balanced, carving through snow as if gravity had loosened its grip for a moment. Mark captured him in that exact place where athletic mastery meets the sublime.
The cold was brutal, the terrain unforgiving, and the timing critical. Yet the shot feels effortless, almost meditative. Fisher framed Todd against the vastness of the Alaskan horizon, the kind of scene where all you can do is pause, breathe, and let the mountains speak for themselves.
TETON SOLAR ECLIPSE
A total solar eclipse is not just an astronomical event, it’s an emotional one. In the Tetons, on August 21, 2017, Mark hiked above Grand Targhee Ski Resort to witness a moment most people experience only once in their lives.
Despite forecasts of massive crowds, the mountains felt almost empty. Only three others sat quietly nearby, waiting for the shadow to fall. As totality arrived, the world shifted. The light dimmed. Birds went silent. The air grew cold. And for two minutes, the Tetons slipped into another dimension.
Mark worked with quiet urgency, capturing each stage of the eclipse with a zoom lens while simultaneously framing the sweeping landscape with a wide-angle lens. Later, he combined the five phases into a single composition — a visual arc over Grand Teton National Park.
The result is atmospheric, cosmic, and deeply grounding all at once. It captures not just the eclipse itself, but the stillness of that moment in the mountains — the feeling that time had briefly paused just long enough to let the universe show off.
FROM THE ROAD
Some projects begin with a question. This one started with a challenge: Could you ski Valdez’s iconic big-mountain lines without a helicopter?
Mark joined skiers Cody Barnhill, Donny Roth, and Marshall Thompson for a human-powered expedition to find out. For nearly three weeks, they camped beside Thompson Pass, studying weather, waiting for clear days, and preparing for the long, grueling climbs required to access peaks normally reached by air.
The culmination of the trip was the ascent of Diamond Peak — a perfect day, stable snow, calm skies, and three athletes ready to close the project with a line they’d remember for years.
Because Mark knew this terrain intimately, he coordinated with a heli-pilot to position himself with precision, framing the skiers’ final push toward the summit. As they moved along the ridge, everything clicked: the light, the scale, the symmetry, and the narrative arc of the expedition itself.
This image is the exhale at the end of a long journey — the moment when ambition, teamwork, and perseverance resolve into something simple and beautiful.
BRING THE ADVENTURE HOME — AND TAKE 35% OFF EVERY PRINT
These four images remind us that adventure photography is never just about the moment captured — it's everything it took to get there: the storms, the cold, the uncertainty, the grit, the trust, and the split-second intuition behind the lens. These aren’t just prints — they’re stories forged in wild places, captured in moments that can’t be repeated.
Right now, during the 2025 Bring the Adventure Home Sale, you can bring any of these prints — and dozens more — into your home at 35% off. Whether you want a reminder of the mountains, the thrill of the unknown, or the stillness of nature’s rarest moments, this is the perfect time to choose a piece that speaks to you. The sale goes through December 3, 2025.
Explore the full gallery and stay tuned for The Stories Behind the Shots: Vol. 2, featuring four more images from expeditions across the globe — coming next week.
