Nepal: An image of a snow leopard that has left social media users stunned.
The picture, shared on Instagram by US-based photographer Kittiya Pawlowski, showed a snow leopard sitting atop a “field of ice pinnacles called Phantom Alley” in Khumbu glacier in Nepal. In the caption, Ms Pawlowski said that she was able to capture “one of the world’s elusive animals – the snow leopard” after backpacking nearly 165.7km on foot.
Since being shared, her pictures have gone viral on the internet, with publications like Animal Planet and government organisations, such as the US Embassy in Nepal, also resharing them. In the comment section, internet users called her images “breathtaking” and “magnificent”.