The photo was taken at night at -14ºC. I wanted to show what happens if an ice climber hits the ice when falling on the rope. It is not easy, because you don’t want the climber to get injured and you have only one try. Camera: Nikon D5 - Lens: Ultra-Wide Angle 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 - Aperture: f/8.0 - Speed: 1/250s - ISO: 1000 - Focal distance: 30mm - Extras: Illumination: two Profoto Pro heads and the Profoto Pro B4 enabled to freeze all ice pieces crashed by the climber. The Flash duration of Akku Flash was high: 1/25000s and 30 flashes per second.
La Pedriza del Manzanares is a magical place with unlikely rock formations. Camera: Canon Eos 5D Mark II - Lens: Canon EF 24/105mm L-series – Focal distance: 24 mm – Speed: 125 seconds – Aperture: f/7.1 - ISO 100 - Extras: Godox V850 Flash and 200 lumens Lend Lenser P7 Flashlight, both with orange filter to illuminate the chimney. Two Godox V860 flash and 3,000 lumens Ebuyfire flashlight, with a reflector to illuminate the bolus.
Vivian Bruchez on the last freehanging abseil from Dent du Géant, as the sun sets over Mont Blanc in the background, Chamonix, France. Camera: Nikon D810 - Lens: Nikon 16-35 f/4 - Aperture: f/8 - Speed: 1/2000s - ISO: 400 - Focal distance: 16mm
Photo taken on a prepared circuit, in a forest planted of Douglas fir, in Cea. The image tries to reproduce a previously lived image in the fog. After many difficulties, we got this image during the 30-second interval when the wind did not carry the generated smoke. Camera: Sony A7 RIII - Lens: Sony 70-200 - Aperture: f/4 - Speed: 1/100s - ISO: 6400 - Focal distance: 135mm - Illumination: 2 Profoto B10 flashes (one for the rider, the other with an orange filter). Smoke machine. Generator
Photo taken while leaving the Avenc Ample chasm in Vall d'Ebo. It is a chasm with a large room and a narrower outlet. I try to give prominence to the feet of the speleologist, which work more on the vertical progression along the rope. Camera: Nikon D7200 - Lens: Sigma 10-20 f/3.5 - Focal distance: 10mm - Speed: 1/100s - Aperture: f/8 - ISO: 100 - Illumination: Yongnuo flash
Will Gadd ice climbing 200 meters underground in an abandon mine shaft in Sweden. Camera: Canon EOS 5D - Lens: 24-70mm - Aperture: f/2.8 - Speed: 1/30s - ISO: 500 - Focal distance: 43mm - Extra: two external flashes & manfrotto tripod
The rapid load in the cave of the external rains favoured the creation of the image. Two front LEDs were used a few meters apart from the stalagmites oriented against the lens. Synchronized flashes were not used. Camera: Canon Eos 6D Mark II - Lens: Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 - Aperture: f/5.6 - Speed: 1 sec - ISO 200 - Focal distance: 30mm
Charlotte Blake climbing Maelstrom (Grade 19 / 6a) a traditionally protected crack climb located on the sea cliffs of Bruny Island. Bruny is a small island that lies off the island State of Tasmania, which is itself an island to the south-east of Mainland Australia. Camera: Panasonic LUMIX S5 - Lens: LUMIX S-PRO 24-70mm F/2.8 - Aperture: f/8 - Speed: 1/320s - ISO: 320 - Focal distance: 31mm
Moe’s Valley is a sandstone bouldering paradise located just outside of St. George, that host a fairly concentration of word-class boulders. I took this photo on March 21, a few days before the coronavirus pandemic shutdown all the flights between USA and Europe, making the journey home an adventure... Climber: Nuno Monteiro. Route: Pink Lady (V6). Camera: Nikon Z7 - Lens: Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S - Aperture: f/5 - Speed: 1/400s - ISO: 64 - Focal distance: 24mm
Photo made in the network of roads prepared by Chencho Miralles in the surroundings of San Rafael. The photo was taken on a cloudy day, to avoid the excess of contrasts, the cyclist's jump was illuminated with two flashes located behind the trees. Camera: Canon Eos 1D X Mark II – Lens: Canon EF 70-200 2.8 L IS II USM at 88mm - 1/250 - f/3.2 - ISO 800 - Illumination: 2 Profoto B10 Plus flashes
Spanish Mushing Championship, on an unpleasant morning with wind, cold and fog but wonderful to photograph. Camera: Nikon 7100 - Lens: Nikor 24-70mm f2.8 - Focal distance: 70mm - Speed: 1/2500 - Aperture: f/5.6 - ISO: 800.
The shot was taken during the preparation to send Pan Aroma rope solo by Łukasz Dudek in 2020. I joined him with a camera while he was working out the route before the actual push. Amongst many other shots, I wanted to also create an image that will show the scale of this project and how big the roof is on Cima Ovest. After converting the image into grayscale, it got much more dramatic and became one of my favorites of the whole set. Camera: Canon EOS 5D mk IV - Lens: Canon EF 14mm f2,8 L II - Aperture: f/11 - Speed: 1/400s - ISO: 250 - Focal distance: 14mm
“Slak Herria” is the name of a group of slackline fans from the Basque Country who are looking for locations to cast their lines throughout the region. Camera: Nikon D850 - Lens: Nikkor 70-200 f 2.8 VR - Focal distance: 150mm - Speed: 1/3s - Aperture: f/22 - ISO: 30.
The photo was taken in this magical place at the Tafjord Mountain Range, close to the Reindalseter Cabin (Norway). The cabin is located at a small lake with crystal clear water right where 4 valleys come together. We were on a 5 days hike from hut to hut. I wanted to show the clear water and photograph the hike from a different and more creative angle - that´s why I brought my quite heavy underwater housing on the hike. It seems it was worth it. Camera: Canon EOS 1Dx - Lens: Canon 16-35mm - Aperture: f/10 - Speed: 1/640s - ISO: 800 - Focal distance: 16mm
Ice climbing in Vallunga, Luka Lindic in the first rope length of "Magic Flute”. Ines Papert and Luka Lindic climb the Magic Flute M 9 (M5, A1) WI 6, Vallunga, Selva, Grödnertal, South Tyrol, Italy. Camera: Canon EOS R5 - Lens: EF70-200mm F/2.8L IS II USM - Aperture: f/4.0 - Speed: 1/200s - Focal distance: 180mm - ISO: 640
