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snow-covered Norway spruces in Sweden

March of Pines

Staggered by snow, Norway spruces bend with the weather in northern Sweden’s Laponia, one of the largest wilderness areas in Europe at 3,630 square miles. “Solitude and spectacle—that’s the essence of Laponia,” says John Utsi, a writer from the town of Jokkmokk...

Photograph by Erlend Haarberg, National Geographic