Penitent snow. Mountain landscape with nieves penitentes (penitent snow) formations (white). These blades of hardened snow or ice, found at high altit

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Penitent snow. Mountain landscape with nieves penitentes (penitent snow) formations (white). These blades of hardened snow or ice, found at high altitudes, are oriented in the general direction of the Sun. Photographed in December, on the Kreuzspitze peak (3457 metres) in the Otztal Alps of Austria, part of the Central Eastern Alps.

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Photo credit: © MARTIN RIETZE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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