"You have been riding for hours among quiet richly wooded scenery, winding up along the side of some kind of gorge, ... then suddenly you come round a corner where the view opens up the valley, and you are almost struck senseless by the blinding splendour of that vast face of ice-hung precipices and soaring ridges, sixteen thousand feet from top to toe ...", from
Mistress of Mistresses (1935) by
E.R. Eddison, describing the grand
Nanga Parbat in the Pakistani Himalaya. The Nanga Parbat was captured in this new featured picture by Wikimedian
Waqas.usman, who spoke to
The Signpost about it (see below).
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