It's almost certainly in Joshua Tree National Park, in Southern California.
Brad is almost certainly right if this page is authentic, which I think is.
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-16465999/stock-photo-climber-rappelling-from-the-summit-of-a-rock-spire-in-joshua-tree-national-park.html?src=&ws=0Even though I have never been under any delusion that the media is all trustworthy, I know many of my opinions (if I hold one at all) are influenced by what I read. Who can help it? So, it was disheartening when I did a Google image search and found that this very same image has been associated with tens of articles and webpages pretending that the image has anything to do with the content. On this one, we have some insider knowledge to call out foul, but I can't help but wonder how many articles I have read over the years that had false content and images that misled me into certain interpretation when I had no idea!
If you are logged in, you can see a few screenshots I'm attaching to this post. To do image search yourself, go to "images.google.com" and click on the camera icon. Then you can search related web content based on an image.
Sorry about the sidetrack.
