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Mount Susitna, a 4,396-foot mountain in Alaska about 33 miles northwest of Anchorage, is informally known as 'The Sleeping Lady' for its resemblance to the shape of a woman at rest: A photograph of The Sleeping Lady said to have been taken from a drone has been circulated via social media, an image showing the mountain to bear a much stronger resemblance to a recumbent woman when seen from overhead: This drone view is not a real photograph of Mount Susitna, however. It's a creation of digital artist Jean-Michel Bihorel, who posted it to his website under the title Winter Sleep: https://jmbihorel.artstation.com/projects/YaDR0d Bihorel verified in a Facebook post that this Sleeping Lady exists only in digital form on his computer, not in the physical world: The Alaska.org website offers a summary of the legend behind the 'sleeping lady' name: However, a 2003 article published in the Anchorage Chronicle asserted that the common backstory behind the mountains's name was of modern origin and did not derive, as often claimed, from native lore:
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