It runs so far inland that at its back there are views of the interior mountains: sharp, snow-covered peaks forming a spine running most of the island's 100-mile length.
After more than four hours of riding, the cyclists ended their 101-mile journey from Padova to this town in the Dolomites, which provides the breathtaking backdrop of sharp, snow-covered mountains that poke the sky.
With preposterously perfect timing, the clouds then melted to reveal the peak of the Jungfrau opposite, sharp and snow-blue-white in the low sun.
To the west, grey clouds thickened over Staffordshire, the sharp air promising snow.
Sharp said the snow fell during the key January sales period, so there was still leftover Christmas stock to shift after the thaw.
Under flat grey clouds, the landscape looks starkly monochrome, without any hint of colour: nothing but pure white snow and sharp black rocks.
They would look out upon the gavelled roofs and stone turrets of the Old Town, weighed down with a thick coat of winter snow; the sharp spires of the Lutheran churches bayoneting the sky; the blue-white ice of the Gulf of Finland locking the land beyond.
We are shown by this picture how the sheep blend into the landscape, and we can imagine them hiding from the sharp eyes of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia), the area's top predator.
While riding across Minnesota prairie during winter gale, temperature 46° below zero, saw sharp-shinned hawk seize snow bunting at high speed.
The only problem is that where there is wind there are also sastrugi – sharp ridges formed on the snow.
For a goaltender starting only his fourth game of the season and his second in the past month, Snow was surprisingly sharp for the Islanders early.
