Place 01: Joshin’etsukogen National Park
Snow monkeys (Japanese macaque), Shinto shrines, beautiful mountain vistas, and thick green vegetation during the summer or loads of snow during winter are commonplace in this gateway to Mother Nature.
Portrait 01: Ted Christopher
…it was just knowing how powerful that [the river] was just from growing up on it, being in water, and just knowing that that's going all the time versus the wind.