Avalanches catch the unwary and unprepared, burying them alive under tons of snow. "Don't go up there without a guide," the locals say.

At night, the wolves howl...

At least it's the sort of mountain peak where you can initialize user data types with {} and use closures like every other language in existence. It's a much better peak than it was three years ago.

How about a picture of an F35 fighter jet? Because a fighter jet goes much faster than [insert your preferred hipster language]? Or, you know, the F35 uses C++ code (and not Python/Clojure/LISP/PHP/Ruby/whatever).

The F-35 is about embedded software, i.e. it's about C/C++ vs. Ada, not C/C++ vs. Python. The reason they didn't go with Ada was a lack of programmers, not language design issues, as I recall.

In any event, I don't think the F-35 with its numerous software-related problems [1, 2] is a good advertisement for C++.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/aerospace/military/f35-s...

[2] http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2013/03/f-35-joint-strike-fig...

It looks like a Scientology pamphlet.

The Modern Science of Mental Health!

A few people can reach the top of that moutain on the cover art ;-P

Which mountain is it?

I`m pretty sure that it is the Mount Fisht (Russian: Фишт) - "it is a peak located in the western Caucasus mountains, in Adygea, Russia" :P

Photo on the cover is reversed: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-76471816/stock-photo-snowbou...

How'd you find out? Google Image search?

Dammit, man, you're making C++ sound fun.

Well, it probably is in the right context, but you know what I mean.

:: Clicked the link. RTFA fairy told me to. ::

Oh, that is the actual cover art.