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“Top of the World”

A snow leopard atop India’s Ladakh mountain range.
A snow leopard atop India’s Ladakh mountain range. Photo: Sascha Fonseca

The Camera Traps runner-up is this shot of a snow leopard, high in an Indian mountain range. It puts the viewer so close to the leopard you feel like you could touch it—a testament to the efforts of the photographer, who had to scale the snowy mountain to plant the camera trap.