This beautiful black-and-white panoramic photograph brings us face to face with the Fletschhorn, which rises to an altitude of 3985 metres on the border between the Simplon and Saas Fee valleys in the Swiss Alps. It's not quite 4,000 metres high, but here it takes on the appearance of a giant. This portrait of the Fletschhorn highlights its incredible north face, studded with hanging glaciers. These diamonds in the rough shimmer with beauty even as their lives are in danger. How much longer will we be able to admire them like this?

This exceptional panorama also highlights the other mountains in the region. Barely visible behind the Fletschhorn, the Lagginhorn peak rises to an altitude of 4010 metres. Our photographic journey then takes us to the Pizzo d'Andolla, a sharp pyramid that stands on the Italian border. From the Tällihorn, our gaze finally wanders to the Tossenhorn, on the far left of the picture. It rises to an altitude of 3224 meters between the Laggintal and the Swischbergental.

I took this photograph of the Fletschhorn from the other side of the Rhone valley. The view of the mountain is breathtaking from the ski resorts of Riederalp, Bettmeralp and Fiescheralp. These villages in the Aletsch Arena ski area lie at the foot of the Aletschgletscher, Europe's largest glacier. A sumptuous landscape that honours these ice marvels, thought to be immortal but dying a little more every day. Having emerged victorious from a snowstorm, the Fletschhorn sparkles at dawn. The clouds still present, the last witnesses to the fury of the winds, endow the picture with a bewitching depth. The freshly snow-covered mountain appears in all its purity. Its immaculate finery lends it a Himalayan air that we'd like to contemplate for eternity.