Death Valley:Places of extremes

Death Valley is the desert of extremes: hottest, driest and deepest. The superlative desert offers bright sand dunes, snow-capped mountains, multicolored rock layers, water-flooded canyons and 12,000 km² of wilderness. It is the home of the Timbisha Shoshone tribe and of animals and plants that are unique to this world of extremes. The first 8 pictures represent the Zabrisky point Zabriskie Point is a vantage point in the Amargosa Range area of Death Valley National Park, known for its bizarre erosion landscapes around the former Lake Manly. It was named at the beginning of the 20th century after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie of Wyoming, Vice President and Managing Director of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which was responsible for borax mining in the area. The rock formations seen from this point are the sediments of the former Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up five million years ago.