Andreas Frank's Gallery: mountaineering, climbing and travel pictures

I really enjoy taking pictures when I'm in the mountains, no matter if it its cycling, hiking, climbing or skiing. Several thousand slides gathered during the last years - the best of them you will find here. Choose your slide show by clicking on the sample image below. - Have fun!

Summer

Bietschhorn SE-Ridge, Sept. 2004	Hochkönig (A), Aug. 2004	Rätikon / Mangold, Aug. 2004	Furkapass, May & July 2004
Engelhörner July 2004	Various climbs in Switzerland	Salbitschijen, various times	Weisshorn Traverse Sept. 1998
Grand Capucin, Bonatti Aug. 2003	Scheidegg-Wetterhorn Jul. 2003	Salbitschijen Jun. 2003	Rotbrettgrat, Jungfrau 28.7.2002
Lauper Route, Eiger NE-face, 28.7.2002	Eldorado, Grimsel Pass, Autumn 2001	Central Piller of Frêney, Mt. Blanc, 8.2001	Contamine on Petit Jorasses, 31.7.2001
climbs in the Mt. Blanc Area	Younggrat, Breithorn Wallis, 1.7.2001	Biancograt, Piz Bernina 7.July '00	climbing in the Bergell 24.-31.7.'99

Winter

Galenstock, 2003	Mt. Blanc du Tacul, Supercoulouir, Feb.2003	Waterfall Ice Climbing Winter 01/02	Gignat-Jackson, Droites NF,13.6.2001
Skitour on Mt. Blanc, 19.6.1999	Skitours in CH and A	various North Faces 1997-1999

Worldwide

AACZ Kyashar Expedition
Nepal, Oct.2003

Mt.McKinley / Alaska
11.5.-8.6.2002
in Englisch or German

Joshua Tree, California,
USA, 9-10.3.2000

Yosemite, California,
USA, 11.-19.3.2000

Travel

Norway Sept.2001	Patagonia (climbing) Jan.2001	Patagonia (travel) Dez.2000	Iceland Jul./Aug.1998
South America 1994

What's New:

20.Jan. 2005 added:

Climbing at Signal, Chäselenflue (added to the general climbing page)
Climbing SE-Ridge on Bietschhorn
Climbing at Rätikon (Mangold)
Slides from 3 days climbing on Hochkönig in Austria
2 times at Furkapass (Galenstock, Dammazwillinge, Graue Wand, Gr. Bielenhorn)
Climging at the Engelhörner (Silberfinger, Kombination)
Updated Salbitschien (once again Villigerpfeiler) and Eldorado ()
Scanned old slides from a traverse of Weisshorn
Added new page for the second year of my little daughter Julia+

24.Feb. 2004 added:

Slides from the "AACZ Kyashar Expedition 2003" in Nepal with the first ascent of Kyashar
A page for my daughter Julia
Climbing the Bonatti route on Grand Capucin
Climbing the direct west pillar of Scheidegg-Wetterhorn
Climbing and Hiking Julia and others from the AACZ on Salbitschijen 2003
Climbing (ice) the Supercoulouir and "Modica-Nouri" on Mt. Blanc du Tacul
Various Skitours in Switzerland and Austria
Hiking in northern Norway and Lofoten Islands
Slides from the trip to Patagonia (travel) and (climbing)
Added the english captions for the Mt. McKinley gallery

19.Dez. 2003: New page design, added the following galleries:

Skitour on the Galenstock
Climbing Rotbrettgrat on the Jungfrau
Bicycle tour through Iceland
Trip to South America (Equator, Peru and Bolivia) with acents of Cotopaxi and Illimani

10.Jan. 2003 Added:

Lauper Route on NE-face of Eiger
Trip to Alaska, ascent of Mt. McKinley (only in german, english will follow soon)
Climbing Various North Faces

22.Jul. 2002 Added:

Various Rock Climbs in Switzerland
A climbing week in the Bergell
Biancograt on Piz Bernina
Various climbs in the Mt. Blanc area

13.Feb..2002 Added:

10.Feb..2002 Added:

29.Jan.2002 Added:

Waterfall Ice Climbing

21.Jan.2002 Added:

2.Jan.2002: Site first time online with slides from:
- Climbing central Piller of Freney on Mt. Blanc

Links

I'm a member of the Academic Alpine Club Zürich (AACZ), and most of my trips I do with people from this club. There you will find great links about the weather and planning trips in the alps, as well as a huge gallery of mountain pictures.

My favorite weather link is: www.westwind.ch an extremely compact interface to all the weather forecast models, but also satellite images, webcams and written forecasts on the web.

To generate these slideshows, I used the freeware programm "HomeGallery" from Stephan Heymann.

Please check your display settings:

All images are best viewed with min. 1024x768 pixel in sRGB colorspace.
The following image should show a smoth rainbow. If not, increase the color-depth on your display driver to min. 24 bit.

One of the best Monitor calibration charts I have ever seen, you find at www.aim-dtp.net. (be careful, people do not agree on everyting written on Timo's site, but his calibration charts are really great. Use the Gamma 2.2 for sRGB). If you click on the link, a new window will open. Adjust your monitor to maximum contrast and view the image at 100% scaling and adjust the gamma, that the chart on the left does not show any color. On the upper black bar on the right you should see black and very dark grey squares alternating, on the lower bar these differences should not be visible - with these two adjust the brightness of your monitor. Then do the whole procedure once again, as the gamma and brightness controls are not independent of each other. A better description can be found on the original site.

If you dont want to use the above source, try the very simple steps described below:

Set the contrast control on your monitor to maximum and adjust the brightness, that you can just distinguish 2% from the background.

Step away from your monitor and check that inner and outer rectangle show the same grey level. Display Gamma should be set 2.2.

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