A photo of part of the mountainside on Tahoma (Mount Rainier National Park).
The image is dominated by a glacier plunging a thousand feet down the mountain, with massive fracture and creases as the ice strains against gravity.
This is only a small, but dramatic part of the Nisqually Glacier.
The glacier Icefall is bordered on both sides by higher rocky outcrops of ridges on the mountain, in shades of dark browns with dusky reddish hues. The funnel all the ice into the drop. It mostly moves too slowly to see, but it's a hazard in case the tremendous strain is suddenly released by any number of factors.
The glacier is mainly white with hints of blue, and streaks of dusty reddish brown rockfall.
To the upper right, the boardering ridgeline continues upward to the center to of the image. To the right of this long ridge is another vast glacier descending from high on the mountainside, and the dark blue sky at the very upper right corner.
The sun illuminates the scene from out of frame to the upper left.
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A close study of the Nisqually Icefall on #Tahoma ( #MountRainier).
The glacier drops 1,000 feet down part of the mountainside! An incredible sight from a safe distance.
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