the fingerprints of mountains

[asakiyume]

Last entry I said my thumb would be a steep climb if the lines of its print were topographical. Here now are some mountains' "fingerprints."

I was imagining a person who had the fingerprints of a mountain peak. sovay asked who would have these. I'm not sure, but I can imagine an egotistical jewel thief or other flamboyant criminal who would mask their own fingerprints with the prints of a mountain.

Which one though?

Mout Rainier looks good:



How about K2?



The volcano Popocatépetl has a beautiful fingerprint:






Fingerprints for the Matterhorn and Mt. Fuji are in comments (Dreamwidth comments) in the previous entry. Do you have a favorite mountain? Check out its fingerprint. You can see the fingerprint of Nyiragongo, the volcano in my icon, here.

Comments

[amaebi]

What a spectacular idea.

[asakiyume]

:D Glad you like.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Now I'm studying my thumbprints. :P

I do like Popocatépetl's print.

[asakiyume]

Who knows? Maybe your prints match a mountain.

[deborahjross]

Love this!

[asakiyume]

I'm so glad! Do you have a favorite mountain?

[deborahjross]

Maybe Lassen, although I've only seen it a few times. Shasta is pretty amazing, as is Hood. I'm not really a mountain climber, and now my knees wouldn't handle that anyway, but they're marvelous to look at.

[asakiyume]

Oooh, *very* nice fingerprint on Mt. Shasta:

[sovay]

I'm not sure, but I can imagine an egotistical jewel thief or other flamboyant criminal who would mask their own fingerprints with the prints of a mountain.

I like that a lot.

("Mount Rainier Was Here" would make an excellent title for something, too.)

[asakiyume]

It would!

[athenais]

Mount Rainier is a favorite since I grew up near it. I am also fond of Mount Kilimanjaro.

[asakiyume]

It's hard to find a topographic map of Kilimanjaro that's big enough to show the whole summit but that isn't obscured by other features (e.g., shading the landforms to represent the steep climb). This has some of that, but at least you can also get a sense of the fingerprint: