Photographer climbing Sand dunes at White Sands National Park (formerly National Monument) in New Mexico on a cold morning in February.

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Photographer climbing Sand dunes at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico on a cold morning in February. White Sands park is at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert in the mountain-ringed valley called the Tularosa Basin. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand cover 275 square miles of desert, the world's largest gypsum sand field.

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Size: 3168px × 4752px
Location: White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Janice and Nolan Braud / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: Yes

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