They are ultimately beyond comprehension - the mountains in their boundless and immense splendor. This illustrated book attempts to illuminate the mystery in all its facets through images and text. Curtain up for the breathtaking and dizzying spectacle of the mountains! Award-winning photographers from around the world have contributed their most spectacular mountain photos to this book, including Sam Bié, Simon Carter, Jimmy Chin, Dom Daher, Monica Dalmasso, Alexandre Deschaumes, John Evans, Olivier Grunewald, Christian Pondella, Scott Serfas, Ben Tibbetts, and Pascal Tournaire. The images are accompanied by lucid commentary from journalist and mountain expert Guillaume Vallot. A solo ascent on a 900-meter rock face, balancing on a summit ridge or at the sharp edge of a snow slope, climbing in a gigantic ice wall. A face covered in snow crystals, fingers reaching out.