Beschrijving
Vertical Vision
Even though one regards himself as a photographer who mountaineers while the other sees himself as a mountaineer who takes photographs, the photography of Melvin Redeker and Menno Boermans is a stunning testimony to the fact that they are masters of both disciplines.
Taking photographs while climbing is an alpine sport in its own right. It takes dogged determination to choose to raise a camera to your eye and take a shot when you barely have the strength to set one foot in front of the other. Because at altitude one always climbs in close partnership with others, the whole team must make sacrifices to allow the photographer to do his work.
Some mountaineers climb in order to boost their egos and will pay a fortune in order to reach the highest summits on earth; they sometimes even pay with their lives. The competitive spirit is not a mainspring for Menno and Melvin, and reaching the summit is not the key objective. The most important thing for them is the journey and the way mountaineering confronts body and soul with the highest of pinnacles and the deepest of dips. Danger is the climber\
