Ice climbing in Elbrus region, near to Tyrnyauz city.

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tonyscotland

Screwed

Voted 6/10

hope you didnt run out of ice screws, looking cool

Posted Dec 28, 2006 10:06 pm

Dan Dalton

That looks like...

Voted 10/10

a long and steep ice pitch! How hard is it to find rest spots to put in screws? Nice job, great photo.

Dan

Posted Dec 29, 2006 12:34 am

Erik Beeler

Nice!

Voted 10/10

What grade does the route go at? WI4? WI4+/5?

Posted Dec 29, 2006 1:47 am

pvalchev

great shot

Voted 10/10

Really captures the feeling of being there.. congrats on an awesome shot!

Posted Dec 29, 2006 5:24 am

Smith93

COOL

Voted 10/10

Freakin amazing picture! Makes me want to grab my tools and get up to Lee Vining. Great color contrast too, the red and the black against the white/blue ice, very cool.

Posted Dec 29, 2006 6:32 am

Dan the Jones

Awesome

Voted 10/10

You got to be at least 50 feet up already. Where was the camera man?

Posted Dec 29, 2006 6:56 am

Andrej Mašera

Spasiba Vladimir,

Voted 10/10

Your brillant shot is a breathtaking experience for us ordinary alpinists.
Zdravstvuj, Andrej

Posted Dec 29, 2006 7:10 am

nurettin

Nice shot

Voted 10/10

Altough it seems like a slightly rotated photo I liked it so much. Thanks for posting.

Posted Dec 29, 2006 7:19 am


	VladimirKopylov	Re: Nice shot
	Hasn't voted	Usually it's not a point of rotation... The most important for fotografer is - to make the distance from the ice surfers as much is it's possible. In this case the shot looks more real - you feel verticality. And usually it's not importatnt too much the angle of rotation... Almost vertical ice - about 80-85 degrees - looks always vertical...
		Posted Dec 29, 2006 8:27 am


	nurettin	Re: Nice shot
	Voted 10/10	Yes, you are right. I understand better what do you mean after seeing other images of the same icefall.
		Posted Dec 29, 2006 8:42 am

eliassegovia

Great

Voted 10/10

I love it! Very nice.

Posted Dec 29, 2006 5:34 pm

carolyn	My arms hurt...
Voted 10/10	...just looking at your photo! Beautiful. This is what it's all about.
	Posted Dec 29, 2006 6:03 pm

GDeu	Beautiful
Hasn't voted	I don't want to ruin the magic but I'd like to know who took the shot and where they were in relation to the climber.
	Posted Dec 30, 2006 1:30 am


	VladimirKopylov	Re: Beautiful
	Hasn't voted	You will be surprise, when I tell, that took this shot and of course the climber was my friend, who did all I asked him to do. Th procedure of doing this photo is very "simple". You should undertand, what you are doing and that you will spent a few hours in order to do just one shot. First the climber makes first run climb up and fixing a rope, descent down. Then photografer, using fixed rope climb up to the last ice-screw and fix himself on it. Un fix a rope and through it down. Then, climber makes his climb up in second time, using already prepared ice-crew and make his HoliWood posing near to photograpfer, doing whatever photografer ask him to do - to show emotions, to make nice ice-axe positions and so on. Photografer, being fixed with a rope, try to be outstand ice surfirs as much as he could, forming a shot and push camera bottom. Climber makes ice-crew belay. Fix a rope. Photographer drop down, using fix rope and then climber makes his descent down... You see- it's very easy and simple!!!
		Posted Dec 30, 2006 8:34 am


	bbirtle	Re: Beautiful
	Voted 10/10	A well-deserved great shot in that case. Some of them come easier but it's always nice when the "hard" photos also turn out well!
		Posted Dec 30, 2006 3:57 pm


	jhp1004	Re: Beautiful
	Voted 10/10	I can see ice-climbing is no problem. I think I'll start tomorrow when the hangovers have gone. Greetings for an excellent photo no matter how it was done. Jørgen
		Posted Jan 1, 2007 3:28 pm

BCL

damn