Anyone recognize this pinnacle?

I'm pretty sure that one is located on the ceiling of my dentist office...

Could be L'aiguille de Roc (Pic de Roc): laboiteverte.fr/photo-myste…

But the mountains in the background look different...

Based on climber proportions, I am going to disagree with the joshua tree possibility.

In the pictures of aiguille de Joshua Tree(the first linked photo) on MP, the climber takes up a majority of the space at the apex of the pinnacle. In the motivational poster, the climber is significantly smaller in proportion to the pinnacle. Plus it looks like a mountain range slightly larger than the Little San Bernadino Mountains.

As for L'Aiguille de Roc: vimeo.com/23313569

At about 60 seconds in you can see the top of the spire. Which appears to be much larger than the rock in the moto poster, which I think is the side shot. The face is probably much bigger. de Rock also seems to have a lot more green lichen, a dubious reason to discount it as the suspect. Which sucks, because now I really want to know.

Not sure what it is, but it's the same spire from the back cover of the 8th edition of Freedom of the Hills. I too am curious what it is. Looks fun!

Oh man nice catch. With a quick reference to the copyright page and:

Back cover Photograph: Climbers on the Salbitnadel, Goscheneralp, Switzerland

google.com/search?q=salbitn…

mountainproject.com/v/salbi…

So happy you found that.

I did a route on Salbitschen in Switzerland last summer that has a last pitch that looks exactly like your photo. Cool peak just outside Andermat.

Dylan Cousins wrote: Astute observation - glaciers have probably been gone from Joshua Tree since well before the advent of photography. The picture I linked was of Aiguille de Roc (Mont Blanc).