She clicked another picture, but no ink and paper could capture the grandeur of that mountain range.
Kristin Hannah • The Great Alone
As dawn washed the darkness from the sky, the shattered glacier was revealed to be a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty.
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
I owned a book in which there was a photograph of the Devils Thumb, a black-and-white image taken by an eminent glaciologist named Maynard Miller. In Miller’s aerial photo the mountain looked particularly sinister: a huge fin of exfoliated stone, dark and smeared with ice.