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A climber in yellow on a knife-edge corniced snow ridge, dwarfed by a white massif of peaks and glaciers stretching away under a deep blue sky.

The Ridge

Chamonix, France · January 2018

1D X Mark II, 16 millimetres, f 11, 1/125 of a second, ISO 100

The whole point of the scale is the person.

Without the figure on the ridge this is just a lot of white, and you have no way of knowing whether that cornice is knee-high or three storeys. One person in a yellow jacket settles the question immediately, which is the only reason the frame works.

Part of The Alps in Winter, a series.