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Obscured By Clouds

A brief glimpse of the odd, stumpy structure that crowns the pinnacle.

¹Hvannadalshnjúkur - at 2110 meters/6922.5 feet, this is the highest peak in #Iceland and part of the Öræfajökull volcanic system. In the foreground are Skarð and Dyrhamar.

¹𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖-𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘴-𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘰-𝘬𝘳𝘳

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A photo of a mountaintop under a cloudy sky with large cyan patches. There's strong sunlight from the right. The foreground is uneven and dark rock ridges, bare of snow and ice but with unusual vertical fingers of rock sticking up from the edge. Behind this is a wide expanse of cracked and sculpted ice, clean and white with blue shadows. In the centre of the shot is the pinnacle. On the right it is an unusual twin stump of rock, almost like a small butte with a distinct ridge running away from it. On the left is a humped mound, and this appears to be the highest point.
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Wilderness

A clear day in mid-November and we're crossing Jökuldalsheiði.

The Central Highland of #Iceland covers most of the interior of the country. It's situated primarily above 300 meters (1000 feet) and is uninhabitable. The soil is mostly volcanic ash, the rivers don't have bridges, and the terrain is filled with basalt mountains and lava fields.

It's also extremely beautiful, albeit in a desolate way. No wonder NASA trained astronauts here.

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A photo of a landscape under an almost completely clear cyan sky. On the horizon is a range of bare mountains, steep-sided brown rock. The foreground is an undulating plain of brown dirt, covered in scattered rocks sized from gravel to boulders. From bottom centre to middle right of the shot, a dirt road lined on one side by snow-poles is snaking ahead and disappearing over a rise. Beyond it, flat ground can be glimpsed.
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