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High above the clouds

At first sight I mistook it for a cloud. But the peak of Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world (8167 m), was much higher than the clouds. It was like a huge, eternal cathedral of ice, high above the clouds and beyond every belief.

(Note: image scanned from a colour slide.)

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Uploaded on July 20, 2009
Taken on October 22, 1998