In the midst of this cirque stands the castle, buried in stately oaks.

Another wall joined it from the left, creating a perfect cirque.

I surveyed the field of erratics in the alpine cirque of Mount Evans.

Refuges are perched on ridgelines and summits all over this cirque.

The cirque was now empty, the gawker having wobbled away muttering.

A final semicircular sweep and the monastery's entrance, perched on the cirque, rose ahead.

Another expedition that season was heading to that same cirque in Pakistan, as well.

So small compared to the enormity of this cirque, yet certainly big enough to maim.

I dive east, with the wind, careening through low lenticular clouds into a glacial cirque.

When it finally stopped, we all headed out to explore the granite cirque around us.

The cart path divided into many winding tracks cut into the hillsides rising above the cirque.

We jogged down a steep, dusty hill as daybreak illuminated a cirque of pyramid-shaped, snowcapped peaks.

Likely the most alpine setting in the East, this enormous cirque seems transplanted from the Canadian Rockies.

After some time we reached the leveling bowl of the cirque, where we'd begun the day's activities.

Ethan discovered the best line in our cirque, on a huge boulder we deemed the Ship's Prow.

To a backcountry climber, the Valhalla cirque is one of the most inspiring places in the range.