Bracing summer air

When the valley dwellers suffer from the sultry heat of high summer, here the air is crisp, the white glaciers gleaming above the lush verdant Alpine meadows and the dark green coniferous forests. One is struck by the awesome power of nature in these inhospitable regions. 
Wild glacier water thunders down to the valley and beyond the tree line raptors such as the golden eagle wing the upper currents hunting for their favourite prey, marmots, or bearded vultures search for the bones of dead animals which they smash into digestible portions by dropping them against the rocks from a great height. Ibexes and sure-footed chamois are at home above the tree line but in these regions all animals are secretive and cautious. Certain plants which have become extinct elsewhere are also common in the National Park.