Photo of the Day 451

Sailplane Pilot, Innsbruck, Austria, 1961

Photograph by Volkmar K. Wentzel

A sailplane pilot over Innsbruck, Austria, glides above the Inn River between cloud-topped ranges. Warm winds that flow in from the south make the mountain valley ideal for soaring.

(Photo shot on assignment for "Tirol, Austria's Province in the Clouds," July 1961, National Geographic magazine)