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Kindly taken by a French couple on the summit. Merci Beaucoup.

Thats one for the lounge wall. Epic!

Wonderful, but please put the horizon straight!

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I really like the current composition of this picture - the ridge & climbers in the bottom right set against the white snow works brilliantly. I do however agree about the horizon being out of kilter. Unfortunately to correct it you would have to crop the bottom edge once adjusted and this would weaken the image. If I am uncertain about getting a horizon straight I sometimes take a slighly more wide angle so that I have room to adjust & crop if necessary. A slight loss of pixel count is worth the effort.

As well as a wonky horizon it's underexposed.

Despite the wonky horizon and underexposure it's great though!

Wonky or not, I think it's a great shot!

The choice of exposure setting is surely part of the art? Should we always conform to a "standard" exposure?

There's nothing wrong with the horizon, it often tilts like that. I know this to be true, having often seen it in my own photos.

Awesome picture in my view, and at many different levels.
I can easily forgive the non-horizontal horizon.

At risk of being boring I would like to add to the horizon debate. This picture captures the feeling of what it is like to be high up in the alps with fantastic views of a magnificent landscape rolling out into the distance.
The inclusion of the small figures could be interpreted as representing how small we are in the greater picture of the high alpine world.
So far so good - but if we were in this position we would be looking at a level horizon (Unless we deliberately leaned our head to one side) indeed our brain would compensate for minor discrepancies and deliver a perception of horizontalness.
So it behoves the photographer to remove any element that interferes with the interpretation of the picture in order to convey the main theme.
It is for this reason that I would maintain my view that a horizontal horizon is essential for the success of an image to recreate the impression of the original observer / photographer of such a scene.