It was the perfect setting for some spectacular and dramatic wedding photos — a wide, rocky ledge, overlooking a stunning northern waterfall.
And standing proudly at the bottom of the N.W.T.’s Carcajou Falls, seemingly immovable amid the churning river, a massive, craggy pillar of rock, the very symbol of solidity and stability.
That was then. Now, the pillar is gone, apparently reduced by the river to rubble in a matter of days.
“It’s kind of sad to see that it’s gone,” said photographer Nicky Lynn Richards, who lives in Norman Wells, N.W.T., one of the communities nearest to the remote falls. She’s taken plenty of
