Swarms of ants. Poisonous yellow snakes. Treacherous swamps. Peeping tourists. These are just a few of the myriad hazards our models faced, clad in only the tiniest wisps of bikinis for protection, to create Maxims second annual swimsuit issue.
Follow the links above to find stunning pictures of some of your home planet’s most gorgeous women, photographed in ruined Mayan temples in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, among the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, and in the rain forests of Dominica. Sure, we may have overdone it, cramming this much beauty into just one issue. But considering the girls’ sacrifices, don’t you think we owe them that much?