honorable mention
Matteo Busetto italy
title
Hostile Environment
Image 1: Rescue intervention for injured mountaineers: a mountain rescue technician, while waiting for the helicopter to land, carefully observes his colleagues already at work on the rock wall.
Image 2: Winch operator prepares for winch down the rescuer to a rock wall to retrieve an injured climber.
Image 3: To lighten and be able to get up at high altitude, the helicopter had to disembark the medical crew on a meadow. They have set up a base camp and are now waiting to receive the injured persons.
Image 4: Completing a retrieval: an injured hiker is winch to safety. In the background, the magnificent mountains of the Dolomites
Image 5: As the helicopter prepares to take off, the rescuers' eyes are always on the site of the operations, an hostile but unique place.
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entry description
Providing adequate and effective rescue to people in difficulty can often be a challenge. But the challenge becomes truly demanding when rescue must be carried out in a hostile environment: high altitudes, rock walls, isolated mountain trails and huts, inaccessible places out of reach for traditional emergency vehicles. I have documented from the inside some moments of these special operations in the Dolomites, one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the area considered to be the most beautiful in the Italian Alps.Image 1: Rescue intervention for injured mountaineers: a mountain rescue technician, while waiting for the helicopter to land, carefully observes his colleagues already at work on the rock wall.
Image 2: Winch operator prepares for winch down the rescuer to a rock wall to retrieve an injured climber.
Image 3: To lighten and be able to get up at high altitude, the helicopter had to disembark the medical crew on a meadow. They have set up a base camp and are now waiting to receive the injured persons.
Image 4: Completing a retrieval: an injured hiker is winch to safety. In the background, the magnificent mountains of the Dolomites
Image 5: As the helicopter prepares to take off, the rescuers' eyes are always on the site of the operations, an hostile but unique place.
about the photographer
Medical doctor, working for the italian Emergency Medical Service and Helicopter Emergency Medical service. Discovering photography has awakened in me the dream of exploring people and the world.back to gallery