This Instagrammer Earns $100K for Hiking Mountains Around the World

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Katya Z
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Instagram has launched in 2010 and evolved into a lucrative career opportunity for numerous influencers. According to Bloomberg, Instagram influencers are working in a $1.6 billion market. Being able to make six figures on Instagram is something many strive for and those who succeed are an inspiration to others.

Meghan Young is a rising star with just over 200,000 followers. Young has always been passionate about hiking mountains, but her passion turned into a well-paying job thanks to collaborations with brands on Instagram.

Below are the photos from her Instagram page that will inspire you to pursue your own passion and turn it into a full-time career.

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@glographics posted about the unseen or in between moments today, and it resonated with something that’s been spinning around in my head for a while. My job and passion is capturing moments of beauty, whether it’s the play of light and clouds across the mountains or the look of satisfaction on friendly faces after a successful summit. These moments are more than just aesthetically pleasing; they represent the culmination of hard work and careful planning. I want to celebrate them, and I want to linger in them when I return home. However, I rarely post about the other parts. The trail sweat, dripping down our backs as we grumble under the weight of 40+ pound packs. The nights we spend shivering in the cold, dreaming of warm beds and central heating. The pile of blue bags we sometimes have to carry home, stinking in the hot sun. I rarely take photos of these moments because they don’t call to me, though they do often make an appearance in my stories. The question then becomes, what’s my responsibility, if any, to showcase these things? Is it enough to write about them and sometimes share short clips via stories?Should I post every photo with the disclaimer that it represents 1/400th of a second of time, not the entire journey? What’s your responsibility as a consumer of media to think critically about the inherently static nature of a photo? How do you check your assumptions about a person or an adventure when you begin constructing a narrative based on a single photo? What are the moments that you choose to leave out, and why? I would love to hear more!

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