The Ascent
France
A lone climber navigates a knife-edge snow ridge high in the French Alps, surrounded by dramatic jagged peaks of the Mont Blanc massif. This is what Alpine mountaineering looks like—exposed ridges thousands of meters up, massive rock and ice faces, clouds swirling below. The climber provides scale to show just how enormous these peaks are. This is the vertical world of the high Alps. Photo © copyright by Michael Schultz.
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