This painting is based on my friend Peter Kwok’s photo he took in June 2017 at White Pass Summit, near the border between Alaska, USA and Yukon, Canada. He and other tourists took a scenic train ride from Skagway, Alaska up the mountain towards the summit. The scenery was very impressive along the way, but the most spectacular was at the summit, where snow-dotted mountain peaks framed an area of pristine wilderness full of rugged rocks and trees whose growth was stunted due to the high elevation. The scene has an air of both desolation and tranquility in its beauty.