Photos from the 125th Anniversary Issue of National Geographic

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• 2010  | Dzitnup, Mexico
  A single frame can transport us to one of our planet’s far-flung and beautiful places. In this one, stalactites and a sunbeam spotlight a swimmer in the Xkeken cenote, a natural well in the Yucatán thought by the Maya to lead to the underworld.

• 1990 | Brazzaville Zoo, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
  Jou Jou, a captive chimpanzee, reaches out its hand to Dr. Jane Goodall. 

• 2011 | China
  Buffeted by stinging blasts of wind-driven snow, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner checks the ropes the team has spent weeks fixing along the entire route -- 9,000 feet of rope in all. 

• 2010 | Afghanistan
  Noor Nisa, about 18, was pregnant, and her water had just broken. Her husband was determined to get her to the hospital, but his car broke down, and he went to find another vehicle. The photographer ended up taking Noor Nisa, her mother and her husband to the hospital, where she gave birth to a baby girl.  

• 1991 | Kuwait

  Under the black clouds of burning oil fields during the Gulf War, camels forage desperately for shrubs and water in southern Kuwait. Front-line photographs of regions ravaged by human strife can also illuminate war’s environmental cost.

• 1991 | North Atlantic

  Rusted prow of the R.M.S. Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg in April 1912.  

• 1913 | Machu Picchu, Peru
  An elevated view of about half of Machu Picchu, the lost mountaintop city of the Inca in the Peruvian Andes. National Geographic supported Bingham's excavations at the site from 1912 to 1915. 

• 2011 | Uganda
  A lion climbs a tree to sleep, in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth Park. 

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