In reply to Solaris:
Another face of Himalayan proportions and aura is the East face of Monte Rosa, from (I think), the Italian Macugnaga valley.
I remember walking into the cirque beneath it on a cloudy day, hard going on a not particularly well made Italian path (for the previous few days, I had been in trainers on manicured tracks in the Swiss Engandine). Beneath the face, the cloud gradually rose, revealing precipice towering over ice-cliff over buttress, higher and higher into the sky till the belayer's neck became unbearable, as the vast face reared ever higher and ever more awe-inspiringly into the sky, cloud remnants still swirling threateningly around it.
It was an extraordinary sight, especially as it is easily accessible from gentle domesticated valleys.