BIG PICTURE
Ahaggar National Park, Algeria
After 13 years of trying, I finally managed to gain access to some of the most remote regions of Algeria’s Ahaggar National Park, following a long period of political instability. Encompassing 173,745sq miles, the park is dominated by vast desert expanses and towering pinnacles sculpted by wind and time. Volcanic activity, tectonic uplift and extreme weathering have also played their part, shaping one of the Sahara’s most stunning and surreal desertscapes. I was joined there by a Tuareg guide, who you can just make out walking across the ridge of dunes.