I Explored An Undiscovered Canyon In Kyrgyzstan, And Here Are 23 Pics Of It

Exploring places that are non-existent on the Internet is very challenging. I scouted most places with google earth. During this small trip, we came upon many interesting structures and canyons. We mainly scouted during the day and shot in the good light and during the night.

It’s amazing to capture places that have never been shot (or even seen) before. Lots of these places do not even have official names. We had great fun making up names for the different structures and canyons that we discovered along the way. The thought of giving places names and hoping that people will utilize them years from now is exciting. ‘The Iceberg, ‘Mars Canyon’ and the’ Canyon of Forgotten Rivers’ are just some of them.

For the night shots, we scouted interesting shapes and structures of canyons during the day, planned the shots with apple-like PhotoPills and came back during the night and early morning to get the milky way shots. During this season the milky way core only rises above the horizon at about 4 in the morning, so to get these we had to get up very early and spent some hours in the cold. It was great to walk around in pure darkness at around -10 degrees Celsius. There was not much wind so it was not too cold. It was like walking on another planet between all these interesting red rocks with my flashlight.