Sunset over Belougery Spire, the Breadknife, and Crater Bluff in the Warrumbungles. The first European to sight and explore the area was John Oxley in 1818 who named the range the Arbuthnot Range. The Aboriginal name 'Warrumbungles' from the Gamilaroi tribe meaning 'crooked mountains', soon took over as the most frequently used name. The mountains are volcanic dykes of peralkaline trachyte and were once part of a large shield volcano, that first erupted about 17 million years ago and stopped about 13 million years ago. Warrumbungle National Park, NSW, Australia
Soft light falls over the north face of the Eiger, an imposing 3,970-metre (13,020 ft) mountain that forms part of the Bernese Alps looking over the valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen. Its precipitous northern wall, known as the Eigerwand or Nordwand, is at 1,800-metres (5,900 ft) the biggest north face in the Alps. First climbed in 1935 it is subject to several famous movies and books. It is often cynically referred to as Mordwand, which translates to "murder wall", as it is taken the lives of at least sixty-four climbers. Bernese Oberland, Canton of Bern, Switzerland Shot on Fuji Velvia slide film.
Remote cliffs on Bathurst Island near Cape Fourcroy. The vividness of the ground makes it difficult to determine the actual cliff edge in front of you in contrast with the floor below. The cape is the westernmost point on Bathurst Island, about 100 kilometers from Nguiu. It is believed that the cape was named after Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, on 26 July 1803 by Louis de Freycinet, on his journey on the Géographe, in Baudin's expedition to Australia. Cape Fourcroy Light is an active lighthouse located on Cape Fourcroy, on the southwestern tip of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia. The lighthouse on the cape was constructed between 1913 and 1920 and marks the beginning of the route from the Timor Sea to Darwin. Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia.
