I took this photo about an hour after digging out of an avalanche that nearly killed me and two friends as we were descending the world’s 13th tallest mountain. It was February 4, 2011 ...

“I have found that [Iranians] don’t represent things that are normal—just an ordinary portrait, a mountain, and so forth,” she’s said. “If a mountain is depicted there then it has to be the highest, ...