Loic Poidevin / Gorner glacier with Mont Rose and Lyskamm, Swiss Alps, Valais, Switzerland. September 2018.

Konrad Wothe / Fritillary butterfly (Argynnis sp) with Scarce copper butterflies (Lycaena virgaureae) Queyras, Alps, France. August.

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 marmot (Marmota marmota) carrying grass and other nesting material across snow to its nest while another one is on the lookout, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy, April

David Pattyn / Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in flight in front of a vertical rocky mountain side, Gran Paradiso National Park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

Kerstin Hinze / Male Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) displaying, Berchtesgaden National Park, Bavarian Alps, Germany, April.

Kerstin Hinze / Male Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) displaying, Berchtesgaden National Park, Bavarian Alps, Germany, April.

Guy Edwardes / View of hikers from behind the Pericnik Waterfall, Slovenia, October 2018.

Guy Edwardes / Landscape of Alpe di Siusi, Dolomites, Italy, March 2016.