This month’s National Geographic cover is a time-lapse image by Stephen Wilkes that captures America’s beauty in one of the most hard-to-reach places.

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A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... our world—from the depths of the ocean to the front lines of the human journey—with an eye for ...

Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of National Geographic. Since we shared photos of ...