In August, months before the onset of the alpine winter, meltwater tumbles down channels and fissures in the streaked rock below high altitude snowfields and the end of glaciers snaking down the rugged slopes of the Mont Blanc / Monte Bianco massif. Image captured from close to Entrèves, Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta, Italy, near the Italian entrance to the km ( m) Mont Blanc Tunnel, which has provided an Alpine road link to France since 1965.

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Entrèves, Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta, Italy: in August, months before the onset of the alpine winter, meltwater tumbles down channels and fissures in the streaked rock below high altitude snowfields and the end of glaciers snaking down the rugged slopes of the Mont Blanc / Monte Bianco massif. Image captured from close to Entrèves, Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta, Italy, near the Italian entrance to the km ( m) Mont Blanc Tunnel, which has provided an Alpine road link to France since 1965.

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Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Entrèves, Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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