Time for a break at the top of the mountain

I took a day off to go for a road trip in the Swiss Alps and nearby Südtirol in Italy. I drove over the Passo dello Stelvio (Stelvio Pass) from the South Tyrol side. A very windy road with countless switchbacks leads up to the mountain pass, located in northern Italy bordering Switzerland at an elevation of 2,757 m (9,045 ft) above sea level. I went to the Tibet Hütte for a coffee break, naturally wearing a mask. This fisheye shot through the window of the Tibet Hütte depicts the scale of the mountain pass.

 

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-- ƒ/8.0, 12 mm, 1/45, 1/200, 1/750 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Rokinon 12mm F2.8, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC6511_2_3_hdr3bal1pai5pho1h.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2020 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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