Like a fleeting painting of breaking waves composed of light, a field of iridescent clouds stretches high above the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Their colors appear as if they were painted with the finest oils in pastel tones—flowing into one another...
Like an enchanted painting, Lake Oeschinen lies still and silent, blanketed in fresh snow, nestled deep within its mighty alpine bowl. The first deep snowfall of late autumn had fallen the night before, laying down a 50 centimeter (20 inch) white veil across the land...
Like a river of ice, the Fiescher Glacier winds slowly but relentlessly down the Swiss Alps, following gravity in sweeping S-curves. It is framed by frost-shattered granite slabs, weathered into plates—like the open pages of an ancient book of Earth’s...
In August, the Milky Way rises steeply above the Monte Rosa massif in the Swiss Alps. Jupiter and Saturn sparkle brightly above the mountain ridge, a shooting star from the Perseid meteor shower falls through the middle of the Milky Way and Andromeda, our neighboring...
A single glance is sometimes all it takes to understand profound insights that words can hardly grasp. There he sits, quietly in the grass, a young arctic fox in the middle of the vast, windswept landscape of his Icelandic homeland. And there is something in his...
