Even at great distance, Everest can be distinguished by the enormous snow plume blowing from its summit.
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I was already paying less attention to the snow plume blowing off the top of Makalu and the magnificent fluted ice ridges of Lhotse Shar.
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As I rode the chairlift up, I watched a single snow plume _ or was it a wisp of volcanic smoke ? _ blowing off the summit of Mount Baker, the real Mount Baker, like a ghostly pennant in the breeze.