Ryan Aw
@ryanaw
Environmentalist, Adventurer, Cat parent, Outdoor Photographer 🔗 www.ryanaw.photos/links Conservation Through Composition
It’s a crazy thing to see the mountains half my climbing gear was named after Left to right -Trango II (6237m) -Trango Tower (6239m) -Great Trango Tower (6286m) -Trango Pulpit (6050m) -Trango Castle (5753m) #trango #trangotowers #climbing #photography #pakistan #karakoram #trekking #travel
Pakistan is a lot of things, and undeniably beautiful is one of them #pakistan #photography #cherryblossom #sakura #mountains #landscapephotography #nature
4:30am, 5600m Top of the Gondogoro La pass. Face to face with four of the tallest mountains on Earth. Directly in front, K2. On the far right of the image, Broad Peak. Further right off screen, G1 and G2 One of the toughest, sketchiest, & most exciting trips of my life #pakistan #k2 #photography
In less than 24hrs, our resident star & satellite will look like this Having to settle for cloudy skies, thunderstorms, and the wrong continent this year, but good luck and clear skies to everyone chasing totality! Image is mine from 2024 #eclipse #totality #astrophotography
Finally editing images from the trek and found one of us resting below Broad Peak basecamp while on the Godwin-Austen #glacier, otw to K2 basecamp On the right, #BroadPeak (8051m) The middle, Chogori/ #k2 (8611m) The left, Pastore Peak (6142m) About 2 weeks before the recent Broad Peak #avalanche
Things you get used to pretty quickly after spending a month living on one of Asia’s largest glaciers: jumping over crevasses #mountaineering #trekking #pakistan #baltoro #glacier #crevasses
I have officially become the cool uncle, also the worst nightmare of all the parents in my family as I inspire their kids to do insane stuff like meet strangers off the internet to go climb mountains in a foreign country 🤣 #travel #photography #family
If my roadtrip doesn’t come in the form of a 70 year old Land Cruiser and certain death with one wrong turn of a wheel, I don’t want it 🤣 #pakistan #karakoram #offroading #roadtrip
They said to never meet strangers on the internet, but when Evan said he likes to get high…I found a few solutions at 5600m/18372ft 5th trip so far with people I’ve interacted with only online, and I’m so grateful for the incredible company each time Who/where next??? #pakistan #k2 #mountains
Sitting in a plane at regular cruising altitude and being just barely above eye level of mountain peaks is…something else entirely Nanga Parbat. 8126m/26660ft. God damn she tall. #pakistan #karakoram #nangaparbat #mountaineering #climbing #windowseat
Hi all! Some noticed I’ve not been active on my newsletter I’ve decided to leave #Substack, and move my publication to a platform that aligns with my values I can’t continue to enjoy a fiscal relationship with a platform that actively champions bigots, so find me here: www.rawtalk.ryanaw.photos
I paid for DaVinci Studio so that I could make edits anyone else could have made in Windows Movie Maker At least I’m finally putting all the terabytes of footage I’ve recorded over the years to use 🤣 #davinci #youtube #videoediting #photography youtu.be/ad_gD37ZJJ0
Growing up, I never saw anyone like me. Let alone climbing rocks, crawling under glaciers, & embarking on crazy expeditions Despite my fear of being perceived, I’ve tried to show my face more to prove that the #outdoors is for everyone like me - #Asians, #immigrants, #POC #AANHPIHeritageMonth
Turns out something like 90% of travellers to Japan don’t leave the Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka triangle; & I find that such a shame because the whole country is just staggering Are you one of the 10% that’s left? Where’d you go? #japan #cherryblossm #sakura #roadtrip
Still not over scenes like this from Japan #japan #sakura #spring #cherryblossom
Things have been kinda wild lately, so how bout a boop? Pay the tax below for more #japan #deer #nara #narapark #japantravel #wildlife #photography
Went to Japan, but left my shutter at home 🤣 #japan #sakura #icm #photography #longexposure
My parents: what are you doing in Japan? Me: working…I swear #japan #photography #hiroshima #kabayaki
Given current events, it felt extremely important to visit the Atomic Bomb Dome while I was in Hiroshima last week Absolutely heartbreaking walking through the memorials and museums Not wanting to have wars should NEVER be a controversial opinion #hiroshima #japan #nowars
