"LUKSO" JUMP FROM ELEVATED POINT

I LOVE TO CLIMB MOUNTAINS

Mountaineering provides a escape for the mind in the same way that the wilderness setting of mountaineering provides a physical escape. The mountaineer forces out all external stimuli in order to devote itself entirely to the task at hand. Escape in mountain climbing comes by removing the mind from the realm in which it is continuously bombarded by stimuli.

Climbers desire to have a challenge, to push the limits of their ability. Reaching the summit is an excellent feeling.

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

The most interesting part of nature for me are landscapes. I am fascinated with light. I take pictures when magic hour arrives, my thoughts focus on light and the patterns of landscape.

FOR MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHERS

The mountain photographer is interpreting the face of nature.... That mysterious infinity, eternally a refuge, a reservoir, an amplifier of spirit, a mother of dreams, a positive though elusive voice in depth lies its subtlety. They will interpret best who are never so comforttable as when under the influence of situations where silence is rich. The emotional knowing has a finer integration with our spirit that anything that comes from barren intellectual prospects. This point of view only accomulates slowly not by long experience and contact with wordless influences. Under the spell of solitude and of natural beauty the root system of this kind of awareness establishes itself.

Great art is usually created under such saturation of awareness. The word is then permeated with an inner perception of beauty and inner personal philosophy. The hope for our photographer is that it shall retain ithese highlights of more than beauty, that through it symbols shall be preserved of response to our mountains keeping them to a flow, a golden thread in our experience.

Cedric Wright
Mountain Photographer's Credo
1941