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This is the welcome committee that greets hikers passing along trail 10 at Lake Muffé, on the path that also leads to the Barbustel refuge.
Encountered at an altitude of 2000 metres altitude.
As usual, the weather was variable, with vapour rising from the valley floor at the start of the day, followed by darker, more threatening clouds, but then wisely the sun prevailed, without rain. A beautiful walk among the clouds.
Questo è il comitato di benvenuto che accoglie gli
escursionisti che risalgono il sentiero 10 al Lago Muffé (a 2000 mt), lungo il percorso che porta anche al rifugio Barbustel.
Come al solito, tempo variabile, con vapori in risalita dal profondo della valle di Champorcher alla mattina, seguito poi da nuvole più scure e minacciose, ed infine un bel sole ha prevalso, senza pioggia.
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These daisies were growing among the rocks and snow on the Schneehüenderstock at 2650 metres.
I think they are Leucanthemopsis alpina.
Alpine Larches as viewed just below the summit of Carne Mountain, Cascade Mountains, Washington State.
The tiny flowers of alpine Erodium are in full bloom at present. They provide a colourful display during the summer months…
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One of the many great joys of skiing is to stay out when most have gone and enjoy the late afternoon light and peace.
This is the view from Muktinath across a large expanse looking at Dhaulagiri in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. To get here is a feat in itself as it's situated high in the mountains. When I arrived there was a fuel shortage and most of the towns in rural Nepal were feeling the effects of vehicles having no fuel. Supplies were short, and the people were also feeling effects of decreased tourists as a result of the recent earthquake.
It's almost irrelevant what you wear in high altitude the cold is bone chilling. As a photographer this provides unique challenges as we like to get up well before sunrise, and stay up into the night. What you can't see in these shots is the guy freezing on the other end of the lens. Or the feeling that pushing over a 15,000 foot mountain pass puts into a tired body. It can't explain how small I feel here, these mountains make elephants into ants. It's hard to understand the scale, but essentially it would take literally days of walking straight up to summit the mountain you're looking at. There is nothing like these mountains in the world.
Dolomite Alps, South Tyrol, Italy
We started our walk at Mompé Tujetsch, descending to the Rhine (Vorderrhein) and crossing it, then climbing to this lovely Alpine pasture (Alm) dotted with hay huts, most of which seem to have been converted to holiday homes now.
(Niverolle alpine)
(Schneesperling)
(Fringuello alpino)
(White-winged Snowfinch)
(Montifringilla nivalis)
Near the alpine area at the bottom of 400M rock peak. They lived together and died together. The tree's that survive up in the alpine are very old, hundred's of years old. Many are almost dwarfed by conditions that are very. harsh in the winter, and the soil in thin near the peak.
西洋翁草、Pulsatilla vulgaris
Taken in the Hakuba Goryu Alpine Botanical Garden, approximately 1,600m above sea level
Alpine ibex feeding on an almost vertical mountain wall, after an exhausting hike through snow and ice we finally found these amazing mountaineers high up on the snow free rocks looking for food. Bavarian Alps, Germany
Trübsee is located halfway on the mountain, between Engelberg and Mount Titlis in Switzerland
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Alpendohle / Pyrrhocorax graculus
Photo taken at Kehlsteinhaus, Deutschland (Eagle's Nest)
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This is an ancient landscape. Granite can be found over the mountain plateau, but by far the most predominant rock formation is dolerite from the Jurassic era (180 million years ago).
Tasmania has the largest exposure of dolerite in the world and it forms the characteristic features seen on many of its mountains ("The Organ Pipes" on Mount Wellington in Hobart for instance, and yesterday I showed you "Old Bill's Monument" here on Ben Lomond). These rocks are in fact the magma from huge volcanic activity that spread across the "island". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Tasmania
Ben Lomond/turapina was also the only mountain in Tasmania to be crusted with a glacier, but more of that in coming days. But all of these extreme events led to the development of highly adaptable alpine plants, which are showing beautiful shades of green. orange, red and yellow. The colours actually remind me of some Persian carpets. In spring, when the wildflowers bloom, this is truly a magical place.
"Ben Lomond National Park protects a representative cross-section of Tasmania's north-east alpine plant communities. Although much of the plateau is stony with areas of low and often stunted forms of vegetation, the remainder of the mountain contains a wide variety of habitats ranging from alpine moorland to dense forest. A total of 222 plant species have been recorded on the Ben Lomond plateau, represented by 152 dicotyledons, 62 monocotyledons, 1 gymnosperm and 7 fern and fern ally families. The five most common families (Asteraceae, Poaceae, Epacridaceae, Cyperaceae and Proteaceae) account for about half the total number of species recorded. Most families, however, are only represented by one or two species. Some introduced plants have naturalised on the plateau from introduced grasses, clovers and straw used to stabilise soil and revegetate areas affected by slope grooming, road works and other site disturbances. The most common native species recorded on the plateau are the herbs Poa gunnii (tussock grass) and Gentianella diemensis, the shrubs, Richea scoparia, Orites acicularis and Pentachondra pumila, Baeckea gunniana and Epacris serpyllifolia. Cushion plants are abundant throughout the plateau. One species, the rock cushion plant Chionohebe ciliolata, is known only from a small localised area within the Park. Other rare and threatened species include the rare endemic Oreomyrrhis sessiliflora, and the endangered Colobanthus curtisiae." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lomond_(Tasmania)