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Mountain valley with a white glacier high between rocky peaks, a waterfall below it feeding a pale gravel riverbed that runs into a turquoise lake framed by green larches. — Glacial landscape of the Palü Glacier Carmen Bizdadea

Glacier capping a high valley head, its meltwater falling in waterfalls down rock steps into a pale gravel riverbed that leads to a turquoise lake, framed by larch forest and white wildflowers under a blue sky. — Glacial landscape of the Palü Glacier Carmen Bizdadea

Video of two people in helmets standing beside generators, blue containers and drilling equipment on a platform dug into deep snow, with a hose running downhill. — Taking glacier drilling to it's limits Janosch Beer

Aerial view looking straight down on a vast white snow slope, with a small patch of dark equipment and blue gear in the centre and a single line of footprints or cable leading from it. — Hotwater in a frozen frame - Alphubel south face, Switzerland Janosch Beer

Aerial view of a grey, dirt-covered glacier surface streaked with dark crevasses and small blue meltwater ponds, with an orange dome tent and a few pieces of gear in the middle. — A sky full of scars - Rhône Glacier, Switzerland Janosch Beer

Silver observatory dome on the roof of an old stone building with dormer windows, beside a range of rocky, glacier-covered mountains partly hidden in white clouds under a blue sky. — Observing the magnificence of the Swiss Alps Angel Ling

Small lake in a brown alpine meadow reflecting white clouds, with a snowy pointed mountain behind whose summit is hidden in a cloud and hikers resting along the shore. — Reflection of the Matterhorn's Fluffy Cloud Hat Angel Ling

Row of steep limestone cliffs lit by a low sun, rising above a sea of clouds that fills the valleys, with distant mountain tops poking through. — Churfirsten mountain range as seen from Hinterrugg Jonas Igel

Deep U-shaped mountain valley with steep slopes of golden autumn larch and green forest, a pale winding stream on the floor below and sunlit orange grass in the foreground. — Lightfall in golden deeps Julien Seguinot

Snow-covered glaciated peaks under broken clouds above a deep valley of grey rubble and dark rock, with yellowing autumn slopes and a winding track on the right. — Little Ice Age . . . Julien Seguinot

Large smooth rock outcrop shaped like a whaleback, sloping gently on one side and steep on the other, in golden autumn grass below a long snow-dusted mountain ridge. — Roche mountonnée . . Julien Seguinot

Stitched panorama with stepped edges of a green mountain slope crossed by a long grey cliff band, rising to dark rocky peaks with patches of snow, a darker rock layer lying above a paler one. — Panorama of the Glarus Thrust Christian Heine

Aerial view of a rocky mountain ridge partly veiled in drifting mist, with pale smoothed rock slabs and a snowfield with a small bright ice tongue. — Downwasting . . . . . Julien Seguinot

Small hut on a sunlit green grassy shelf on a forested mountainside, surrounded by dark conifers, with grey clouds and mist filling the valley beyond. — Refuge in a cloudscape Julien Seguinot

Smooth grey polished rock humps strewn with loose stones and a perched boulder, below a dark jagged mountain with patches of snow half hidden by mist. — Above the trimline . Julien Seguinot

Steep gorge wall of thin, tightly stacked grey rock layers tilted almost vertical and curving across the face, with tufts of grass, small trees and a leafy slope at the side. — Layered Rocks of the Préalpes Fabio Crameri

Stream rushing as a white blur over rounded pebbles into a clear green pool at the foot of a curving wall of steeply tilted, thinly layered grey rock. — Flowing Erosion of the Préalpes Fabio Crameri

Narrow gorge with steep layered rock walls covered in moss and trees, a stream cascading white between mossy boulders into green pools, and a railed footbridge high on the right. — Gorgeous Gorge of the Préalpes Fabio Crameri

View down from a rocky summit into a green alpine valley with small snow patches and ponds, partly in cloud shadow, with rows of mountain ranges behind. — Cloud field variations over the Swiss Alps Andy Smedley

View from a dark hilltop at dusk over a long lake winding between forested headlands, the low sun glinting on the water under heavy black clouds, with a hut and a windsock in the foreground. — Lake Lucerne at Dusk David Tanner

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