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<strong>Winner, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016<br><br></strong>A young male orangutan makes the 30-metre (100-foot) climb up the thickest root of the strangler figthat has entwined itself around a tree emerging high above the canopy. The backdrop is the richrainforest of the Gunung Palung National Park, in West Kalimantan, one of the few protected orangutanstrongholds in Indonesian Borneo. The orangutan has returned to feast on the crop of figs. He has amental map of the likely fruiting trees in his huge range, and he has already feasted here. Tim knew hewould return and, more important, that there was no way to reach the top – no route through the canopy –other than up the tree. But he had to do three days of climbing up and down himself, by rope, to place inposition several GoPro cameras that he could trigger remotely to give him a chance of not only a wide‐<br>angle view of the forest below but also a view of the orangutan’s face from above. This shot was the onehe had long visualized, looking down on the orangutan within its forest home.<strong><br></strong>

Tim Laman/Wildlife Photographer Of The Year