Fulvio Mariani
Fulvio Mariani has nurtured a deep passion for mountaineering and photography from an early age. He works as a cinematographer for the Swiss television RSI, for which he made a dozen alpine and adventure documentaries. His images often stand alone, not needing narration or dialogue to interpret their meaning to the viewer. In 1983 he took part in his first mountaineering expedition to the North Face of Everest, where he shot his first documentaries. Some of his most notable films are Cumbre, The Wooden Man, and Siachen: A War for Ice, among many others. His filmmaking has taken him all over the world, from Patagonia to the Himalayas, from Siberia to Pakistan, and he’s won numerous international awards, including one of the first International Alliance for Mountain Film Grand Prizes, which he won in 2004.