Honorable Mention / 2024 / Nature / Earth

• Photographer
  Tomasz Rosset-Żak, Poland

Annapurna South at dusk covered in smoke from a wildfire. In the background Milky Way starts to appear.
Winter in Nepal is very dry and despite the cold temperatures fires are common. Some of them are due to natural factors and some human-induced, as local people burn shrubs to clear land for farming or for regeneration of fodder for their cattle.