David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) adult males fighting in alpine landscape, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

David Pattyn / Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) in its landscape, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso national park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) struggling in deep snow on a steep slope, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy, January

David Pattyn / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in deep snow emerging from den, Valsavarenche valley, Gran Paradiso national Park, Aosta Valley, Alps, Italy, December

David Pattyn / Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra) in winter landscape, looking up slope. Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. December

Juan Carlos Munoz / Red fox {Vulpes vulpes} walking through thick snow, Gran Paradiso NP, Valsavarenche, Aosta valley, Italian alps

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) adult males fighting on a steep mountain side, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) males sleeping, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) young male on a steep rock, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) young male on a steep rock, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) , Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy

David Pattyn / Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) males licking salt at the edge of a road, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso national park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May