Lyskamm Avalanche
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Superb Lyskamm in prey to the elements. This gigantic mountain of the Valais Alps is made of two summits of more than 4000 meters of altitude dominating the valley of Zermatt, in Switzerland. Lined with suspended glaciers, it offers to the mountaineers a very beautiful crossing of tapered edges.I took this photograph of Lyskamm in 2017. While the snow has just fallen on the high reliefs of the Valais, the first rays of the sun illuminate the north face of this giant of the Alps. A moment of purity suspended from the will of the elements. An increasingly rare testimony of a wild nature now heavily subjected to the consequences of climate change. The snow is giving way to rain and the glaciers are diminishing, irremediably. That morning, I was admiring the beauty of Lyskamm when an avalanche occurred. The implacable power of a nature that leaves no chance to those who underestimate it. Fortunately, the two climbers who were climbing to the Lys pass (Lysjoch), tiny points lost in the middle of this grandiose panorama, were at the moment of the fall at a higher altitude and are therefore safe and sound.
When I made this portrait of the mountain, I was at summit of the Gornergrat, accessible by small tourist train taking the visitors of the valley of Zermatt to more than 3100 meters of altitude. I was surrounded by visitors, a noisy and agitated crowd whose main preoccupation was to take selfies in front of the mountain. When the avalanche started, I was the only one to photograph it. Suddenly noticing the strange being that I was, accompanied by my huge camera, the telephoto lens fixed on summits, they realized the spectacle that had just taken place before their blinded eyes. The people are there without being present... When I go to meet the high mountain, I enter in connection with it. I feel its vibrations, I listen to it, I am attentive to its slightest movements. Like an animal photographer on the lookout for the slightest breath. In symbiosis with nature, so strong and fragile at the same time, to better highlight it. This is how I feel alive and that the mountain, when it agrees to reveal its splendor to me, gives all its meaning to my art.
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100 x 150 cm limited à 5 prints +2'500 CHF
Value of your work
CHF 4,500
- Shipped in 5 - 15 days?
- Fast and secure global delivery
- Try the work for free at home for 14 days
Other desires? Contact us
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Superb Lyskamm in prey to the elements. This gigantic mountain of the Valais Alps is made of two summits of more than 4000 meters of altitude dominating the valley of Zermatt, in Switzerland. Lined with suspended glaciers, it offers to the mountaineers a very beautiful crossing of tapered edges.
I took this photograph of Lyskamm in 2017. While the snow has just fallen on the high reliefs of the Valais, the first rays of the sun illuminate the north face of this giant of the Alps. A moment of purity suspended from the will of the elements. An increasingly rare testimony of a wild nature now heavily subjected to the consequences of climate change. The snow is giving way to rain and the glaciers are diminishing, irremediably. That morning, I was admiring the beauty of Lyskamm when an avalanche occurred. The implacable power of a nature that leaves no chance to those who underestimate it. Fortunately, the two climbers who were climbing to the Lys pass (Lysjoch), tiny points lost in the middle of this grandiose panorama, were at the moment of the fall at a higher altitude and are therefore safe and sound.
When I made this portrait of the mountain, I was at summit of the Gornergrat, accessible by small tourist train taking the visitors of the valley of Zermatt to more than 3100 meters of altitude. I was surrounded by visitors, a noisy and agitated crowd whose main preoccupation was to take selfies in front of the mountain. When the avalanche started, I was the only one to photograph it. Suddenly noticing the strange being that I was, accompanied by my huge camera, the telephoto lens fixed on summits, they realized the spectacle that had just taken place before their blinded eyes. The people are there without being present... When I go to meet the high mountain, I enter in connection with it. I feel its vibrations, I listen to it, I am attentive to its slightest movements. Like an animal photographer on the lookout for the slightest breath. In symbiosis with nature, so strong and fragile at the same time, to better highlight it. This is how I feel alive and that the mountain, when it agrees to reveal its splendor to me, gives all its meaning to my art.
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