The name “Aiguille du Midi” translates literally as “Needle of the Noon” or “Needle of the South”. It gets its name from its tapered form and from its position when viewed from Chamonix: it approximately indicates noon when the sun passes over its summit.

Filipino Roman Catholic devotees climb the carriage to kiss and rub with their towels the image of the Black Nazarene to celebrate its feast day Monday, January 9, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. The raucous celebration drew tens of thousands of devotees in a barefoot procession that last for several hours around Manila streets and end up with several people injured. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)

The artist Luke Egan, also known as Filthy Luker, gets Horrible Harvey, his inflatable monster on October 26, 2022, pumped up for his debut at the annual Halloween in the City celebrations in Manchester, United Kingdom this weekend. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire Press Association via Getty Images)

An F-18 Hornet fighter jet on May 27, 2025 lands and takes off from a highway during Baana 25, a military exercise held by the Finnish air force. (Photo by The Times)

Opossums on their mothers back at a game reserve in Central Minnesota, USA, on September 2, 2013. (Photo by Caters News Agency)

The Smilovichi Felting Factory in Belarus was founded in 1928, when Smilovichi was a small Jewish settlement of craftsmen. Five of those craftsmen organized a small artel (a cooperative association of craftsmen who all live and work together), which produced warm boots called “valenki” for cold weather. Photo: Belarusian workers works at a felt boot factory in Smilovichi, some 35km from Minsk, Belarus, 16 January 2012. (Photo by Tatyana Zenkovich/EPA)

Two men fight in San Jose, Costa Rica, during the Women's Day on March 8, 2014. (Photo by Jeffrey Arguedas/EFE/SIPA Press)

Organizers of an exhibition of ancient instruments of torture in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, have suggested that children, heart disease patients and people with high blood pressure stay away because of the vivid depictions of shocking cruelty. The exhibition has more than 200 instruments of torture on display in the 50,000-square-meter exhibition halls of a restored ancient building. Wax figures, along with sound and light techniques, are incorporated for scary effect. The local government said the exhibition is for tourists and historians to research ancient torture practices. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress)