By Chris Pleasance PUBLISHED: 16:14 EST, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 18:05 EST, 2 December 2013 As the ski season gets underway, thousands of tourists will be packing their bags and heading off to the Swiss Alps to enjoy themselves on the slopes. However, one man has taken a different approach and has instead spent his time six miles above the pistes capturing these stunning photographs. Using a rented aircraft, photographer Basti Hansen took shots of  the magnificent mountains as few people will have seen them before. Basti Hansen used a rented aeroplane in order to capture these pictures from nearly four miles above the Alps highest peak, that of Monte Rosa
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Basti Hansen used a rented plane to travel up to 36,000ft before taking these amazing pictures
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At that height he would have passed four miles above the summit of Switzerland's tallest mountain Monte Rosa
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The highest mountain wholly in Switzerland is Dom, the third highest in the Alps and stands at 15,000ft
Cruising along at 36,000ft @placeholder would have been able to easily pass over the highest mountain in Switzerland, Dom, which has a summit of just under 15,000ft