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The View from Rifugio Alimonta

A dark-theme map of a mountainous region. Black background with faint grey-white contours. There are a few areas which are illuminated more brightly with brighter, thicker contours and ice-blue patches depicting glaciers. Select peaks are shown with yellow triangles and labelled along with their elevation. At the right edge of is an alpine hut symbol. This is the point from which the view is shown. The scale bar indicates the whole scene is ~40 km across. The glaciers visible are listed in the bottom left.
The View from Rifugio Alimonta: I was lucky enough to fall asleep, and wake up, here once
projectionUTM Zone 32N
toolsQGIS (overpass turbo plugin for getting data, gdal for viewshed) & Inkscape for labelling
dataPeaks, Rifugio and Glacier areas and names from OpenStreetMap; Elevation from Copernicus WorldDEM-30 (ESA, 2026)
fontRecursive Sans & Mono, by Stephen Nixon, with Lisa Huang, Katja Schimmel. Rafał Buchner & Ben Kiel
commentsQuite like how this one turned out. would have liked to have had the glaciers named in-situ, but that left an annoying amount of dead-space in the lower right. The text in the upper left serves only to fill that void. Grid lines could have been a nice addition
date05/11/2026