Ben Nguyen

Aug 30, 2024 | canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward |Ben Nguyen

The beams from our headlamps cast a soft red light as our footsteps crunch through the scrubby desert soil. Our eyes have been adjusting to the darkness for the past half hour, and any bright light would send us straight back to square one. Above our heads, the universe. More stars than I’ve ever seen before sprawl across the indigo darkness. Constellations cluster in the clouds of the Milky Way, which arcs shimmering through the sky like a river.