A landscape PHOTOGRAPHY backpacking trip like no other. 

I feel like one who is in awe of amazing fireworks… all I can say is “Oooh!” and “Aaah!”

What an incredible place. You’re living my (and many others’) dream, Adam. I sure hope you appreciate that. Thanks for this lovely video.

Stunning video🦜♥️🌲🌟🇫🇮🐘🌴😀👍!!! Great photos too!!!

Wow - what an adventure, what a landscape - proper Lost World stuff - and beautifully photographed!

Enough world class images just in this one video for a new book or zine. Simply fantastic dear sir.

Amazing and spectacular photography.

Fantastic images. Appreciate the extra work to film during these hikes to bring us along.

It's always wonderful to be in the mountains with such light and atmosphere, thanks for sharing and letting us enjoy some of it with you.

Stunning. Especially that image at ~16:06! Love the whole video, and the series from Namibia and S Africa

You have certainly taken some beautiful photographs on this trip. I also suspect you have also many lifetime memories also. Thank you for sharing.

The Raw file reveal is super helpful Adam. The difference between the file is a great way to learn.

Very enjoyable and interesting. Beautiful. ❤

Lovely photos Adam. Thank you.

Brilliant , stunning , period

Great series buddy! Some gorgeous shots, especially loved the pastel shots of the distant layers

Lots of "porfolio shots" and amazing places!

What outstanding landscape images. You are the best. Thank you for sharing.

Though many have spoken to this, I too, appreciate the raw file image prior to your edit. You do justice to the rendering of light, shadow and colour without over exaggerating and your cropping is well chosen. Thank you, Adam, for sharing such inspirational beauty.

That shot at 12:54 Jeez!

Really amazing trek and great photos.🤩🙏

Great photography. Very enjoyable. Thanks

Absolutely fantastic series Adam thank you very much for sharing your awesome journey of such a beautiful place on our planet really enjoyed Namibia but the Drakensberg was epic. And as always all photos were absolutely stunning

Another stunning location/video. I too like to see the raw file, then your edited photo. As always Adam, you have produced some stunning photo's from your trip. Keep up the good work.

Excellent ! Thanks for posting.

Very nice. I always appreciate showing raw files before showing the final edit.

Adam, I think this is your most beautiful video yet. Great work and thanks!

As always really gorgeous photos. I also appreciate your "hiking/camping" to give us the views. While I can get around pretty well still at 76, my acrophobia limits what I can do at heights. My time in the military cured me of any desire to do camping except at the most civilized of areas. So, you doing all the hard work and showing us the results, is really great.

Absolutely wonderful. Every second of the series was great you’ve got some stunning images. Also thanks for taking us along

Beautiful high quality images. They show so much depth that it sometimes seemed as though I was right there standing on the cliffs.

Best photo at the 7:30 min mark, Adam, great morning shot, just after a coffee I bet !

those telephoto shots are great!

Superb set of shots Adam!

Love the image at 8 minutes in 👍

As usual, a stellar video and photographs of a place that I've never heard of! Such loveliness, I can't even find the right words... But when I watched this, my heart rate really slowed down, it was mesmerizing.

Outstanding! Thank you for sharing

Beautiful as always

Great videos Adam. Really enjoyed following along.

I have followed both you & Alex on social media for a number of years and to see you on a trip together was great. What an amazing location & I look foreward to seeing a book from AN on the Drakensberg sometime in the future. Must say in the week you were on this hike it looked you had some amazing conditions and this shows in the images you have presented us. One of the things I love about your work Adam is your processing is always to a minimun but always with a maximum effect - no doubt due to your skills in the field I would say. Great watch as always. atb Al

Hats off to you Adam for carrying your full kit up there. Appreciate the effort to record the walk and then give us some lovely images along the way. The Drakensberg Mountains do look extraordinary, but not always the easiest place to photograph. As you say it is hard to give scale to your images in such a place. Personally, I would have been tempted to shoot monochrome more than colour in this environment particularly when you have a lot of mist and cloud and can take advantage of the strong contrast. Just as an aside, I noticed pretty much everyone except the guides were using walking poles. This must be northern hemisphere thing. I know they are said to have lots of benefits, but in my experience they are more a hindrance than a help in anything but open country. They just get in the way. If I take a pole, I take one only which can be useful on steep descents or in crossing fast flowing streams. But when you are scrambling up or down steep rocky gradients or moving through scrubby or thickly wooded terrain you generally want both hands free, not having to manage two poles. So I don't quite understand this two walking poles thing except in favourable situations.

Fantastic trip and pictures!

Thank you very much Adam for taking us on what can only be described as every photographers dream , what a wonderful journey , Phil

Great trip and shots. Other places you might like could be "The Garden Route", which has beautiful forests and coast, some of the Cape mountains like Baviaanskloof or mountains around Oudshoorn, and remote desert areas like Richtersveld.

One of the things I love about your videos is seeing the raw images and then guessing how you're going to edit them. Bring up this or accentuate that, but often it is in how you crop them that is the most surprising and delightful. Thank you

Nice photos Adam. Lucky you, that is some area to visit.

Outstanding! Thank you, it is a great video!

I thought I recognised that voice! I joined Alex Nail for his Great Wilderness Trek in the Scottish West Highlands May 2021. It was an amazing 5 days and he knows his stuff both in photography and hiking. Lucky you to go with him to the Drakensburg. Its on my bucket list ;-)

Amazing, I will never get there but I am so glad you did and shared your adventure with us. Thank you!!!

Wow what a spectacularly beautiful trip. Excellent images!

Wow is a good description for this collection of images, extraordinary sir, thank you!

Fantastic images!

Absolutely stunning places!!! At some point one expects to see a dinosaur or a flaming dragon pop up, such is the magic of the place... I had never heard of it, thanks for showing us. It goes without saying that the photos are extraordinary !!!

Just stunning light and landscapes Adam. Wow.

amazing country well done mate

Incredible. The one thing i like most about your videos is that you show the raw image before you show the final image. It does two things. First, it shows the importance of getting it right in camera when you take the shot. Second, it shows off the subtlety and nuance of your post-processing. You prove you don't have to go over the top with processing to have great images.

Thank you for a wonderful video.

Amazing location; amazing conditions; amazing photographs!

So many fantastic images here Adam - particularly like the rainbow shot I have to say!

I want a button to push during the video for the pictures that make me say, "OMG, that is stunning!" ❤

wow that was som lovely conditions you got up there 😊

So beautiful pictures, the views are spectacular. Thanks for sharing with us.

Thanks for all your hard work. Appreciate you including your camera settings too. Had to watch twice.

"It's just spectacular." Truer words were never spoken. Love the video. The scenery is, in a word, spectacular!

Wow... beautiful images of a stunning area. Really liked this one.

Amazing place. Amazing images. Bravo!

Thank you Adam. It looks a difficult environment. 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

What a bunch of gorgeous shots. Your keen eye for a composition, great anticipation for light, careful editing style and GFX 100s detail makes for some incredible wallhangers!

Wonderful Video and Pictures.

Great to see one of my favourite photographers experiencing the splendour of the Drakensberg. It's such an incredible, awe-inspiring part of South Africa. Lovely shots Adam!! 🙏

Looks like a gorgeous area. Wow, thanks for sharing from your trip through Africa, I haven’t been to that part of Africa, but really want to visit it sometime.

Thanks!

Great series. It’s always nice to see areas, I didn’t know before and they’re photographed wonderfully. 😊

Breath-taking stuff, Adam! Thoroughly enjoyed this series. Thank you.

Marvelous places. Fantastic trip. Thanks for sharing, Adam.

I'd love to see a video where you bust out the ole 4x5 and shoot some film. Perhaps in a garden like you used to.

Adam, what can I say! Incredible trip, the photos have bee just stunning. I. Believe the word is Ethereal. WOW, thanks for taking us along. Stunning work as usual!!!

Fantastic, just fantastic. I see you're using an Acratech tripod head; good for you.

Thank you. That was beautiful. The next video is about the baboons, I hope? 😊

Adam, amazing video, excellent images! Congratulations !

Amazing adventure! Your images are phenomenal! Thanks for taking me along!

Your work has taken on another dimension, and I am so excited that you explored the Drakensberg. I am deeply inspired, thank you.

Adam, this was a great video, the music choice was outstanding and fit the foggy, cloudy mood so well. The images were very nice, and some of the cliff edge photos triggered my vertigo so I had to hold on to my chair so I would not tip over. I am glad you did not mute the greens in the photos, seems like so many people are doing that now, and for me if it is green it should stay so in most photos but maybe that is just me.

Thanks Adam. Great content, great photography.

another trip added to our bucket list, courtesy of Adam Gibbs's storytelling. Wonderfully inspiring adventure.

There are so many incredible shots that came out of this trip... wow

Stunning landscape. Thanks for taking us along.

I never realized that South Africa had mountains like this. Spectacular!❤

Very interesting to see how you process your raw- files! Thank you

Thank you for taking us along. Wonderful images!

Got some top shots there man

Wow Adam, I’ve been waiting for this one, as I’ve hiked the Drakensberg a number of times. So glad you enjoyed it, although it’s quite a big cardio workout right? It was great seeing what you managed to capture with the GFX and its ability to pull out shadows in the contrasty conditions. The top of Rockeries shows some spectacular vistas as you found out, Mponjwane etc. and not sure if you did see it but close to Rockeries is the Mnweni valley, enclosed by cliff faces that plunge down nearly a kilometre on either side. You can hike either up or down a pass to get to the bottom of the valley and this piece has absolutely staggering scenery with spires encircled in swirling mist. Hopefully you’ll return again Adam, cheers for now. Nick in SA.

Stunning views! The imagery is wonderful.

That was just an awesome place and you made some really beautiful photographs. Wonderful work Adam!

Awesome landscape - awesome shots! Thank you ever so much, Adam, for sharing.

Holy shit, that image at 16:00!

Hi Adam, Great to see you in our beautiful country with a great diversity of nature and wildlife, enjoy every minute 😊

just around the corner from where I live :)

Thank you so much. I have loved every post and every image. Very inspiring!

Fascinating place and experience. Thanks for sharing it with us Adam. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole time sits with you for a long time.

Everything about this video is spectacular. Gorgeous scenery and even the B roll is inspiring. The flow is excellent, and the images are amazing. I really appreciate how you show the RAW with settings followed by the edit. Thank you for the inspiration.

Beautiful images of a beautiful place!