December 2nd, 2017 | Updated on April 6th, 2024
French photographer Thierry Bornier took this stunning mountain picture in Anhui, China, and said: ‘Mount Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), with its uniquely shaped pine trees and majestic peaks rising from the mist, has featured in Chinese art and literature for over 1,000 years. To photograph this view, I had to climb steps carved in the mountain for over an hour, in total darkness. At the summit, the temperature was recorded as 19°F (–7°C), and it was a further three hours before the conditions were perfect to capture this shot. With landscape photography, there is one element you cannot control and that is the weather. The local photographers told me that they had never seen this phenomenon, and that it could be another 100 years before it might happen again’
