New Delhi: A wildlife photographer has captured a breathtaking shot of a snow leopard sitting atop a field of ice pinnacles, leaving the social media users in awe of nature’s beauty.
The photo, 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, Pawlowski said that she was able to capture "one of the world's elusive animals - the snow leopard."
In her Instagram posts, the award-winning US photographer detailed her journey across the remote areas of Nepal.
In her social media post, she mentioned how she undertook a long journey of over 165 km on foot to reach Khumbu Valley in an attempt to photograph the big cat.
“After walking through Earth’s most forbidding terrain, lung-starving altitudes, soaring peaks, and high deserts—this was the most difficult and rewarding set of photos I’ve ever taken,” she wrote in the caption of one of her pictures.
Meanwhile, her pictures have gone viral on the social media, with publications such as Animal Planet and government organisations - the US Embassy in Nepal - also resharing them.
In the comment section, Instagram users have called her images " breathtaking " and "magnificent".
"Such an amazing capture.... Wow!" wrote one user.
"Now that is a impressive work Kittiya! It must have been very hard to track him but you showed the result, awesome!!!" said another one.
"This is just amazing. Had never imagined this beautiful animal wanders around the Gorakshep region," wrote another user.
"All your sacrifices where fully worth it..! outstanding capture," added another.