Late night alpenglow adds a soft touch to the shot, however few peaks inspire the ...
... same mix of fear and respect as the Devil's Thumb. A relatively low altitude peak at 2,767 m (9,077 ft) the notorious northwest face rises 2,042 m (6,700 ft) from its base. With an average angle of 67 degrees it is considered the steepest wall of that magnitude in all of North America. This is my first post using the APPICS app as a beta tester and I must say that I like what I have seen so far. While they are waiting for the SMT's to be finalized the app is posting directly onto steem blockchain. You will hear much more from me about APPICS in the coming weeks !
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Just unreal lighting man! Nice work. Resteemed.
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Wow what incredible lighting on this shot!
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Beautiful, I love it!
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Imagine being on top of this mounatin. I wonder if anyone has been there.
I had written this for my portfolio but it talks about the climbing the face ... "The peak itself was first climbed by Fred Becky in 1946, however the northwest face remains unclimbed after five decades of attempts by scores of climbers including some of the world’s top mountaineers. Most never even made it to the start of the face, while at least three teams have perished in the process. Dieter Klose who in 1982 made it halfway up the route, higher than anybody else alive, commented in the American Alpine journal that ‘as a rock climb it’s a perfect place to commit suicide”. The warm coastal winds, extreme Alaskan precipitation levels, and Patagonian style variability in weather all combine to make the conditions on the face notoriously slippery and prone to avalanche. A small theoretical climbing window is possible during the spring transition when storms can create thaw-freeze conditions and stabilise the face however many believe the level of weather variability is so extreme that it will never be climbed. No one has attempted the face since 2003 when two Canadian climbers perished. The mountain was known as Taalkhunaxhkʼu Shaa in native Tlingit, which translates to the "the Mountain That Never Flooded". The thumb is located in the Stikine Icecap region of the Alaska–Britsh Columbia border, near Petersburg, and is often simply identified as Boundary Peak 71 on survey maps. "
Oops thought it was a vector drawing in the thumbnail :S the sky and mountain colours are pretty intense.
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You had awesome pictures!!👏🏻👏🏻
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Soo pink