The Corvatsch glacier near St. Moritz, Engadine, Switzerland, is a popular alpine skiing destination. But while thousands of people hurtle down its snowy slopes each year, some parts of the frozen landscape are best left for birds, helicopters and drones.
It's not just the danger of avalanches that should worry intrepid adventurers; sometimes, beneath the snow, molten pools can open up—and falling into one is not our idea of a fun ski trip.
In late 2018, North China's Shanxi Province was stricken by a minor catastrophe.
The ambitious Yellow River Diversion Project had sprung a leak—which resulted in massive flooding.
In an attempt to quickly assess the damage caused by the massive leak, operators launched drones into the air, revealing the cracked reservoir wall in stark detail.
At first glance, you don’t think there’s anything that special about this arrangement of ceramic jars containing soy sauce. But when you look closer, you can see that there is a person standing by these jars—and that this image isn’t taken of a table, but is rather a drone image of an entire field!
We can’t imagine how much soy sauce is actually contained in these giant jars, but it certainly makes for an impressive view. This amazing shot was taken of Rugao City, in the Jiangsu Province of east China.
This amazing image is taken at Salvation Mountain, a beautiful piece of art created just outside the famous Slab City in the Sonoran Desert, California. Slab City is an unincorporated squatter community of people who prefer to live with nature and outside the constrains of modern society. It was created by one of the residents of Slab City, a man named Leonard Knight.
This structure next to the commune perfectly encapsulates the chaotic and beautiful way of life there, in equal parts strange and yet mesmerizing.
Some things are as old as time. Shepherds driving their flocks of sheep, rice fields—these have been staples of human existence and sustenance for millennia.
So, peering down on a shepherd driving his sheep through a paddy field in Sonatola Upazila, Bangladesh, through the lens of what is, essentially, a flying, remote-controlled robot, only serves to accentuate how the more things change - the more they stay the same.
On 11 November, 2014, one of the largest and most impressive art installations in London's history was unveiled in the moat surrounding the historic Tower of London.
All around the Tower's walls, precisely 888,246 ceramic red poppies were placed, each representing a British or Colonial serviceman killed in World War I.
The work was titled Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, a quote taken from a poem written by an anonymous soldier from Derbyshire, who joined up in the early days of the war and died in at the Front. The breathtaking installation temporarily transformed the iconic London landscape—and was most appreciated from the skies.
The Unicredit Skyscraper in Milan is the tallest building in Italy. Standing at a height of 231 meters—that's 31 floors—the Unicredit tower is a truly impressive piece of architecture—but to stay that way, it needs to be maintained, and a big part of that is cleaning its seemingly endless glass surface.
The precarious job is left to a small team of intrepid window cleaners, and, thanks to drones, we can now follow along from the safety of our phone and computer screens.
In certain super densely populated areas of China, it can be hard to spot even a tiny bit of green space in the city, let alone take a bit of garden for yourself. Well, one resident of the Yuanjing Building in the Xihu District of Nanchang City, in the Jiangxi province of southeast China, decided to take things into his own hands!
This amazing drone image shows the incredible sky garden he built on the roof, despite regulations banning such a creation. Even though the local authorities demanded he take it down, the owner refused and kept it there for all to see. Well, all in the sky, that is.
This would certainly be more vegetables than even the healthiest eater could possibly consume in a day! Here we see a drone image of a vegetable market in Shibganj, in the Upazila district of Bangladesh.
Absolutely amazing quantities of cauliflowers and white radishes are arranged in this meticulous and beautiful layout, in across the market which stretches over a mile long. After buying, these vegetables are packed into jute sacks and transported all over the world.
The Koffiefontein diamond mine in Koffiefontein, Free State Province, South Africa, has been operational since the late 19th century. Starting out as a relatively small mine, it's continued to grow and expand over the years, eventually turning into the gargantuan pit that it is today.
But while it is impressive to stand on its ledge and look down, letting a drone shoot up into the sky and capture the mine from the sky reveals just how huge and impressive the mine really is.
