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The sun shining behind the observer projects their shadow through the mist, while the magnification of the shadow is an optical illusion which makes the shadow on nearby clouds seem at the same distance at faraway landmarks seen through the cloud.

She has been shortlisted for many prestigious literary prizes and has won the Costa children's book award. The mountain's summit is a subalpine zone with flora and fauna almost comparable to those of north Scandinavia and the Alps. One belonged to Soviet military intelligence, the GRU, and was also the westernmost outpost of the Soviets in Germany; the other was Department III of the Ministry for State Security in the GDR. In the Brocken Garden, established in 1890, flora are nurtured by national park employees; visitors are allowed to view it as part of regular guided tours.

Consequently, the glory an airplane passenger sees always is red on the outside, just as is a primary rainbow. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has often been recorded in literature about the region.

The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside, cloud bank, or be seen from an aircraft, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. alba), hawkweeds like the Brocken hawkweed ( Hieracium negrescens) and the alpine hawkweed ( Hieracium alpinum), vernal grasses ( Anthoxanthum), the lady's mantle ( Alchemilla), the tormentil ( Potentilla tormentilla), the alpine clubmoss ( Diphasiastrum alpinum), the lichens, Iceland moss ( Cetraria islandica) and reindeer lichen ( Cladonia rangiferina). The Brocken spectre is a common phenomenon on this misty mountain, where a climber's shadow cast upon fog creates eerie optical effects. A "Brocken Spectre" occurs when a person is standing above the horizon, causing a shadow to be cast on the mist or cloud below. As part of the exchange of territory (specified at the Yalta Conference) the mountain was transferred to the Soviet occupation zone.The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges their shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points by which to judge its size. The peak above the tree line tends to have a snow cover from September to May, and mists and fogs shroud it up to 300 days of the year. The most challenging part in each case is the last four kilometres to the Brocken summit, for which in both races, a separate mountains classification is given.

The term 'Brocken spectre' was coined in 1780 by Johann Silberschlag, a German pastor and natural scientist who frequented the Harz mountains. The colourful halo always surrounds the observer's own shadow, and thus was often taken to show the observer's personal enlightenment (associated with Buddha or divinity). In 2019 another hiker captured the weather spectacle in the Lake District, describing it as 'magical' and 'absolutely incredible'. The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is the highest peak in the Harz mountain range and also the highest peak in Northern Germany; it is near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt between the rivers Weser and Elbe.Two well-known running events pass over the Brocken: the Ilsenburg Brocken Run (beginning of September, 26 kilometres or 16 miles, of which 12 kilometres or 7. The true origin of the name Blocksberg, however, should not be seen as "block" in the sense of "mass", but rather the German word block (as in block of wood) in witchcraft. German heavy metal band Edguy mentions Brocken and Walpurgisnacht in their song "Angel Rebellion" from the album Kingdom of Madness. If you were mountain climbing at a time of day when the sun was low and behind you, and if you climbed high enough to look down into a mist below you, you might witness the shadowy figure of the Brocken Spectre.

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