Mountain Pass Serpentine — Stelvio Aerial
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An aerial view of the Stelvio Pass road in the Italian Alps — the 48 hairpin bends of Europe’s highest paved road photographed from above as a spiralling grey ribbon.
Description
The Stelvio Pass road in South Tyrol, Italy, rises to 2,757m ASL using 48 numbered hairpin bends that are visible in their entirety from an elevated aerial position — the grey tarmac ribbon spiralling up the mountain face in a pattern that has been described as the greatest road in the world by generations of automotive journalists. This aerial photograph, made from a light aircraft at 3,200m altitude (500m above the pass summit), captures all 48 hairpins in a single frame, the road pattern creating a complex spiral that reads as both an extraordinary engineering achievement and a pure abstract geometric composition. A landmark image of mountain road photography used extensively in automotive brand communications.
