Superb black and white photograph ofObergabelhorn, which rises to 4063 meters above sea level in val d’Anniviers, in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Its ridge rises to the edge of the sky like a wave singing the beauty of the world. The mountain exposes its north face to the first rays of the sun. A triangle of light much appreciated by steep skiers. 300 metres of vertiginous descent after a perilous 800-metre ascent. Behind the mountain, the Monte Rosa massif rises to the horizon. Our gaze takes in the Nordend, the Dufourspitze, the Zumsteinspitze, the Signalkuppe or Pointe Gnifetti, before landing at summit on the Parrotspitze. While the Liskamm, the famous Castor and Pollux and Breithorn enjoy the new-found light.

I took this aerial view ofObergabelhorn one morning in the summer of 2020. The mountain had just endured the season's only snowstorm. I had long dreamed of being able to capture the splendour of this summit just covered by its First snows. When they hide the rocks and reveal the mountain in a new light. Bringing out previously invisible details on the walls. Redrawing the landscape as the artist creates charcoal on a blank page.

As I contemplate this work, I'm fascinated by the sheer size ofObergabelhorn. See the immensity of its hanging glaciers adorning its rocky flanks. I'm delighted to have been able to immortalize the mountain in its most beautiful light, the legacy of an Alpine heritage that is inescapably evolving. I chose to photographObergabelhorn from this angle to bear witness to its infinite grandeur. Through contrasts of Soft and silver, this colossus of ice seems to invite us to come and meet it. A few days later, I answered its call. And when I reached its summit, I could see the Alps in all their beauty.