Autumn in Patagonia lasts a few weeks at most. The peak — when the lenga beeches turn deep red against granite and ice — is narrower still. I spent seven months in El Chaltén before I understood how to meet it.

Usually the end of a year - or the beginning of a new one - marks the period of looking back. Unfortunately last year didn't quite turn out to be THE year to be looked back at. And so I will take the freedom to look back even further, to a…

Behind Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre lies a place most visitors to El Chaltén will never see. This is the story of my expedition to Circo de los Altares — an otherworldly place stuck between ice and vertical granite on the edge of the Southern…

El Chaltén in winter is a different place — the hikers gone, the trails frozen, the Lenga beeches stripped to bare wood. A winter sunrise on Fitz Roy rarely matches expectations. I almost didn't go.

Since I'm being treated to some decent internet connection these days I thought I'd give you a little update about my whereabouts... I'm reciding in Ushuaia at the moment with a few hours off, before i continue to Isla Navarino to do one…

Merry X-Mas everyone!! I'm lucky enough to be celebrating in Patagonia this year. Here's a shot from last week. I'll post some updates next week - if internet connection permits...

I'm finally back in front of my desktop computer after 11 weeks of travelling. Lots of new stuff to process and work on, but for now all I can offer is this older shot of mine. Found it deep down in my archive last year when I was looking…

Cerro Torre has fascinated me since the first photograph I ever saw of it. Getting something honest from it took years of trying. The answer, when it came, arrived at night.

31st of December. Top-Of and Best-Of lists all over the social webs – you’ve probably seen enough of these. Still, this is the time to look back at the past year and so I thought I’d tell the story of my year with the help of a few shots…

Days of cloudless sky over El Chaltén. No use to a landscape photographer. So I went out at night instead — and found the Fitz Roy Range standing silent under the stars.

The last news about Patagonia that made it into austrian newspapers was when a tourist accidentially set Torres del Paine National Park on fire in December 2011. A few days ago, on May 16th I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read a headline…

Excuse me for jumping back and forth between continents, but today I didn’t really feel like posting another himalayan shot. I’ve been busy planning another patagonian adventure that’s supposed to take place during the next few months and…

I was asked by fellow austrian photographers at NatureHighlights.com to participate in their blog showcasing one nature image a day. I have been following the blog for a while already and have been impressed by the quality of the images on…

I have travelled through Patagonia quite a lot and the rugged landscapes have been a huge inspiration for me. But even in a place were beauty is abundant you have to go a bit further – so, by the end of our last stay we left the well…

If you're a photographer yourself, you may well have experienced that the most demanding challenges you face are the ones that leave lasting memories. It's the outer circumstances that make those moments, regardless whether they are of success or failure, so special. A picture taken from a car park, no matter how iconeous the scenery or dazzling the light, will never be the same as one that you took one day's march away from civilization.

There was no time to scout for another composition. I didn't want to miss a second of what was going on on the main stage (more on that in another post). I simply turned around, positioned my tripod, pressed the shutter button twice and…

Almost nothing online — just a massive, unclimbed east face somewhere in the southern Andes. For a landscape photographer, an information gap that size is its own kind of invitation.

It was our third morning out there and we had already been thinking about not even getting out of the car. All that we could see in the west was a thick layer of low lying clouds. A few curtains of rain were hauled around by the wind.…

After returning from our first trip to Patagonia I somehow had the feeling that I had to go back. We had seen a lot, but I felt there was so much more. Even the parts that we had already visited had so much to offer, that I was more than…

It was on the bus from El Calafate to El Chaltén, when I first saw the panorama of the cordillera and the shapes of Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy with my own eyes. And in this very moment I realized that trekking in El Chaltén was going to be…

Chaltén as Fitz Roy was called by the indigenous people is a peak of 3.406m and is well known amongst climbers all around the world. Not only is it a great mountain to climb but also to photograph. Patagonia’s climate and strong winds are…

My first morning in El Chaltén. No clouds, no Patagonian drama — just a few seconds of red light on Fitz Roy's peak before the mountain slipped back into shadow. I had no idea what this place would become.