Can you spy the rockclimbers hiding in plain sight? The looming Dolomite Alps make the adventurers look like tiny specks of color, perhaps birds or flowers growing in the grass.

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The less-than-harsh climate in the Dolomites in eastern Italy make it a dream location for mountaineers, according to ItaliaOutdoors.com. Individuals have been freeclimbing—climbing without pegs placed in the rock to assist progress, and occasionally without ropes and harnesses—in the area since at least the late 1800s.

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While we can't be sure that the photos above depict freeclimbers, the route looks perilous nonetheless. The largest peak in the Dolomite Alps, Marmolada, rises 9,831 feet.

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