During the summer of 2020 we joined a group at the Lockwood Foundation to help a beautiful human named Zara climb her first 14,000 foot peak which happened to be Mount Elbert, the highest in the state of Colorado. Being a paraplegic, she needed help getting to the top of the mountain in her modified wheelchair made specifically for this endeavor. There were about 70 of us and the night before we made it to basecamp just below treeline. When my buddy set up his tent I looked over and saw it aligned perfectly with the milky way so I took this shot to commemorate the experience and capture what it is like to camp under the lights of a Colorado summer.

Mount Elbert, CO