Glacial Pace

Photograph by Silvia Aresca , National Geographic Your Shot

Hikers journey across a glacier near the Formazza Valley on the Swiss-Italian border. I was walking toward the top of the 3,374-meter [11,069-foot] Blinnenhorn, writes Your Shot member Silvia Aresca . The path climbed steeply until the brow of the Gries Glacier, where finally in the distance I saw the peak that owes its name [blind horn] to how difficult it is to see until one is almost at the end of the walk. I stopped to get my breath back and saw these two silhouettes [moving] over the glacier.

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