Bridge over the Arve River in Chamonix, Haute Savoie (France)

Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky,

Mont Blanc appears,—still, snowy, and serene—

Its subject mountains their unearthly forms

Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between

Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps,

Blue as the overhanging heaven, that spread

And wind among the accumulated steeps;

Mont Blanc; from the Chamonix valley

Percy Bysshe Shelley