A photo of a snow leopard on the icy cliffs of northern India has won the people’s choice award for the 58th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award, the National History Museum in London announced Thursday.
Sascha Fonseca’s “World of the snow leopard” won first prize out of a pool of 25 shortlisted images, racking up the majority of votes from 60,466 people.
Fonseca, of Germany, set up a bait-free camera trap three years ago in the Indian Himalayas, in the territory of Ladakh.
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