Vertical Limit: This Gravity-Defying Photo-Shoot Will Take Your Breath Away

If this uncommonly warm autumn isn't inspiration enough for you, these stunning pictures from a photo-shoot by Swiss photographer Robert Bosch for mountaineering brand Mammut, will certainly make you want to run for the hills.

The photo-shoot was done as a part of the celebrations to commemorate the first ascent to the top of the incredibly beautiful Mount Matterhorn, between the Swiss and Italian borders, by Edward Whymper - an outrageously difficult climb.  



Spectacular and gravity-defying, the pictures are as much a promotion of the Alps as they are for the mountaineering brand's trekking gear.

This is when the mountaineers found that the whole world was with them.  Source

This is when they realised that they do not need wings to fly.  Source

When they felt like they belong together, at the top of a narrow snowy peak.  Source


Hanging onto the side of a mountain peak for dear life and skiing off fantastically dangerous slopes never looked this classy, wouldn't you say?

Watch the making of this photo-series and judge for yourself just how difficult it must have been for all those involved:


Photography by: Robert Bosch
Courtesy: Mammut

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