This aerial view shows a pristine glacial landscape, featuring a vast expanse of white snow and ice with subtle textural patterns caused by wind and snow movement. Smooth, undulating snowfields dominate the foreground, showing gentle ridges and natural flow lines. In the middle distance, dark rocky outcrops and crevasses break through the white surface, creating a stark contrast, including two prominent, oval-shaped holes revealing dark rock beneath. The upper part of the image shows steep, dramatic mountain cliffs with exposed dark grey and brown rock faces, which create sharp diagonal lines across the frame. Four tiny dark silhouettes representing human figures are visible in the lower right quadrant of the snowfield, providing a sense of scale to the vast landscape. Strong shadows are cast along the cliff edges and in the crevasses by the lighting, emphasising the dramatic topography and three-dimensional relief of this high-altitude glacial environment.

Photo of a mountain ridge mostly covered in snow, crowned by a steep, twin-peaked mountain on the left, above a horizontal layer of fog just above the surface of an inland sea. Pale blue sky above, muted by thin clouds.

This aerial view shows a pristine glacial landscape, featuring a vast expanse of white snow and ice with subtle textural patterns caused by wind and snow movement. Smooth, undulating snowfields dominate the foreground, showing gentle ridges and natural flow lines. In the middle distance, dark rocky outcrops and crevasses break through the white surface, creating a stark contrast, including two prominent, oval-shaped holes revealing dark rock beneath. The upper part of the image shows steep, dramatic mountain cliffs with exposed dark grey and brown rock faces, which create sharp diagonal lines across the frame. Four tiny dark silhouettes representing human figures are visible in the lower right quadrant of the snowfield, providing a sense of scale to the vast landscape. Strong shadows are cast along the cliff edges and in the crevasses by the lighting, emphasising the dramatic topography and three-dimensional relief of this high-altitude glacial environment.

Photo of a mountain ridge mostly covered in snow, crowned by a steep, twin-peaked mountain on the left, above a horizontal layer of fog just above the surface of an inland sea. Pale blue sky above, muted by thin clouds.

Taken at Castlewood Canyon State Park. In the distance, Pike's Peak.

Taken at Castlewood Canyon State Park. In the distance, Pike's Peak.