Picture Stories by Stephen Alvarez

Madagascar's Stone Forest interview on WAMU / Animal House

© Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic Magazine

This morning WAMU's Animal House airs an interview with me about the Stone Forest story in the November National Geographic (interview here). 

-Stephen Alvarez

There is a post that shows about getting there here

Travel to Tsingy de Bemeraha, Madagascar

© Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic images used with permission

Here is a short, romantic version of getting to the Tsingy. Sometimes I forget that getting a place can be 1/2 the trouble. Actually getting there took more than 8 days of constant travel. 2 days of flying, 6 days of driving on bad roads. One of theses days I'll make a film about packing the 14 bags of equipment, dealing with Air France and all the troubles and all the troubles in between, but really who cares when a story works out as well as this one did? See the story here.

The sound is my camp guides singing around the table in camp one night recorded by Luke Padgett.

-Stephen Alvarez

Madagascar's Stone Forest on NPR's Picture Show

Stone Forest is up on NPR's Picture Show Today (here). 

Thanks NPR.

-Stephen Alvarez

"Razor Sharp," Madagascar

John "Razor Sharp" Benson and Luke "Fummakiller" Padget make their way through the Tsingy. © Stephen Alvarez/NGM used with permission

My Stone Forest of Madagascar story is out in this month's National Geographic (here). It is hard not to use hyperbole in describing this place, 600 square kilometers of limestone towers up to 100 meters tall. Moving in there was just about impossible.

2 passages from my journal that sum up working there for 6 weeks