I once saw a photo, many years ago, of the coolest mountain range and I’d love to know where this was. It was very very tall skinny peaks, like jagged teeth, reddish in color, with a tiny bit of snow on the tips, and they went on forever as far as you could see. It looked like traversing the region would be near impossible. I always had in my mind that it was Tibet. And it still might be. Yet now when I google Tibet, I see nothing like it. Any ideas?
Maybe.
Bryce Canyon?
Nearby Everest… the Himalay’s, somewhere between Myanmar (Burma), the very north of, and Tajakistan. …
Here’s a such a scene, which includes the Nepal/ China border area… Taken from Everest or there abouts.
http://www.absolutechinatours.com/Tibet-attractions/tibet-mountian-everest-5924.html
Could also be …he Tian Shan mountains (Kyrgystan - China border area)
Baffin Island, Canada , Greenland, Novaya Zemlya should only have smooth tops… and more glacier tracks.
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For some reason I have a hunch that the combination of tall skinny peaks and snow on the very tops of them isn’t something that actually occurs in nature. Any chance what you saw was a painting or a generated image? How many years ago is “many”?
I don’t think it gets snowy, but maybe the stone forest in China (Google for images)?
Yeah I saw that while I was googling. Pretty cool place! Nature does some freaky stuff.
Could have been a created image, it might have even been cgi from a movie. I just can’t remember. I’ve had the scene in my head for at least 10 years.
I had fun browsing photos from all those areas, but didn’t really recognize any of it. I imagine it would have to be taken at the right angle and location though. And maybe what I’m remembering as red rock was just sunset. I was hoping it would be obvious, but I guess not. In any case, I learned some new terms… Spires, pinnacles, hoodoos.
Yes, that’s about right, although it’s on the wrong continent. But perhaps I just had that all wrong. Anyway, I’m excited that such a place is so close. Maybe I’ll make it to Utah someday, whereas Tibet would be difficult.
Your description reminds me of the mountains of Chile. Here’s a Google image search on that
Goreme, Turkey:
I don’t know which of the photos is correct, but they’re all gorgeous. I love mountains.
Maybe the Tianzi Mountains in southeastern China? Panoramio is no longer available
The Andes are pretty spectacular in the sunset - there are certainly near-vertical peaks and jagged teeth
http://travelwithjules.s3.amazonaws.com/andes-sunset-horns-of-pai-940x400.gif
but I’m sure you could find this ort of feature in many places in the world.
The description sounds a bit like the Torres del Paine, although “going on for ever” is a bit of an exaggeration.
Ah, the red of sandstone… Utah has sandstone pillars
The OP needs to tell us the scale too… how far was the horizon ? a few miles, or 50 miles ?
and depth ?
The previous post about China shows a winter scene. The summer scene shows more red of the sandstone.
The description made me think of the Dolomites in northern Italy.
My first thought was Trango Towers.
