01-07-2015, 07:59 PM
Great stuff!
Right now, there is an attempt at conquering perhaps the hardest free climb in the world, the Dawn Wall of El Capitan and photog/filmmakers Corey Rich and Brett Lowell are there too spending days at a time hanging on the wall.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...n-capitan/
Click on the lead pic to see a slideshow of pics with captions.
MUCH more about the climb and updates at this blog: http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic....ree-climb/
one pic:
Capturing this sweeping perspective of Jorgeson climbing pitch 15, at 1,200 feet up El Cap, involved something of a small miracle of rigging work. Here, filmmaker and photographer Brett Lowell hangs from a 2,700-foot-long, 9-millimeter-thick rope that has been tensioned out by a crew on the ground to pull him away from the wall. Lowell's primary goal is to shoot video of the ascent for a documentary film.
Once Lowell and Rich get into position on their respective ropes, they find themselves committed to that perspective for upward of five hours at a time. Simply moving around in this ethereal vertical realm is time consuming. Their constant challenge: finding creative ways to capture a diverse body of imagery while hanging from one position.
Right now, there is an attempt at conquering perhaps the hardest free climb in the world, the Dawn Wall of El Capitan and photog/filmmakers Corey Rich and Brett Lowell are there too spending days at a time hanging on the wall.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...n-capitan/
Click on the lead pic to see a slideshow of pics with captions.
MUCH more about the climb and updates at this blog: http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic....ree-climb/
one pic:
Capturing this sweeping perspective of Jorgeson climbing pitch 15, at 1,200 feet up El Cap, involved something of a small miracle of rigging work. Here, filmmaker and photographer Brett Lowell hangs from a 2,700-foot-long, 9-millimeter-thick rope that has been tensioned out by a crew on the ground to pull him away from the wall. Lowell's primary goal is to shoot video of the ascent for a documentary film.
Once Lowell and Rich get into position on their respective ropes, they find themselves committed to that perspective for upward of five hours at a time. Simply moving around in this ethereal vertical realm is time consuming. Their constant challenge: finding creative ways to capture a diverse body of imagery while hanging from one position.
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