Hundreds Of Mountaineers Climb The Alps For Epic Photoshoot

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Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 30, 2014 - 08:34am PT
Mammut hires Robert Bosch, photographer, to celebrate 150 anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn.

http://www.zmescience.com/other/great-pics/matterhorn-photoshoot-29092014/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zmescience+%28ZME+Science%29
snowhazed

Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:36am PT
fun stuff

and 150 years!
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:42am PT
Mammut needs to hire a better marketing staff/consultant IMO. Mammuts photo advertisements turn me off but hey it could just be me and my mountains as wilderness and escape notions.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:53am PT
Thanks Peter. Interesting and creative but also illustrates why i eschew climbing in the Alps and seek the path less travelled by.
WBraun

climber
Sep 30, 2014 - 08:58am PT
Beautiful and so cool.

Thanks Peter ....
TrackerTodd

Mountain climber
CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 09:05am PT
Super cool pics!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Sep 30, 2014 - 09:14am PT
It's like synchronized swimming and the Alps are the pool!

Definitely a euro thing. Safety in numbers? I think they just like bobbling around the mountains in well organized groups. Snazzy color-coordinated outfits can be taken home and worn for any occasion. Like it or not, there is brilliant execution here.

I like the picture with fisheye lens looking straight down on to the summit.

Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:09am PT
I like their adverts
Roots

Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:24am PT
Cool stuff and so are the Alps!

Thank you
Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2014 - 10:35am PT
Yeah. A completely different view on Man In Nature, for sure.

So much for the 19c Romantic Conjecture, where a man or woman applies his/her specific critical genius, all alone and specifically as an individual, arriving at immense yet hidden truths. As Tarbuster says just above, a synchronized swimming optic on wilderness and positioning the Alps as a dough-boy swimming pool. Reminiscent of Blue Man Group, even, but red!

An earlier way of looking at the subject (not new to many of us here):

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 30, 2014 - 01:49pm PT
Thank you Peter!

These are innovative, for sure. Thanks for the post!!
Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2014 - 05:14pm PT
I agree, Fort.

It is interesting that at first Photoshop and its brethren had such power early on and today imagery that smells anything like photo manipulation at such high levels is quickly experienced as repellent and perhaps irritating. Even if the image in question is a true-blue, as-shot “real” image.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 30, 2014 - 05:59pm PT
Crazy good image Tarbuster!
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Sep 30, 2014 - 07:30pm PT
Only one thing could add to this photoshoot and that would be naked Indian call girls photo- bombing the event...
kaholatingtong

Trad climber
Nevada City
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:15pm PT
damn Euros, hah! Great pics.
KabalaArch

Trad climber
Starlite, California
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:23pm PT
Yeah Johnny - shame on you!













































They should be Sweedish!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 30, 2014 - 10:41pm PT
Epic is right.
AerialElf

Trad climber
Squamish, BC
Oct 2, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
wow, that fisheye shot is incredible!
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