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9 JUN 2026 · ITALY

The Stelvio.

Over the top at 2,757 metres in cloud and snow, then dinner, then down the far side to a waterfall in the dusk.

Three of us seated at a window table, fog over the switchbacks behind
The summit restaurant. Three at the window, the fourth behind the camera, fog over the hairpins below.
Me standing behind the open door of the silver BMW coupe in the summit car park, scree and snow behind
Back at the car after dinner, 2,757 metres up, the light going.
Me with arms wide in front of the waterfall, white water filling the frame
Halfway down the far side, arms out. You cannot hear yourself think this close to it.
On the way up. The estate ahead through the hairpins, snow on the peaks behind it.
Higher up. The coupe right behind us through a hairpin in the rain.
The top, in the cloud. The hairpins we had just driven, somewhere underneath it.
The summit car park after dinner. Everyone wanted the same photo of the cars.
Down the far side at dusk, the cloud lying in the valley.