Relief by Dylan Toh & Marianne Lim

Relief by Dylan Toh & Marianne Lim

Macchapucchre
Nepal [The everlook action tutorial!] I feel old when I’m describing an image that’s now 6 years old! Back them without the kids, tramping was something we did together rather than separately. Doing these hikes found Marianne’s tolerance for altitude is quite low. Above 4000m, things start to go awry with nausea, incoordination, severe headaches and shortness of breath. Annapurna Base Camp sits at just over 4100m and on our first night there, a combination of panic and acute mountain sickness had a few of us walking down halfway toward Macchapucchre base camp which is 300-400m lower in altitude. When Marianne started to feel better, we basically set up an open air camp in the brisk late October air and watched the stars above while huddled up. Night images taken with the 5dmk2 then were pretty noisy but I hope to be able to return some day with the new gear to properly photograph this amazing cauldron of giant mountains extending up to 8000m in some directions. Macchapucchre itself is relatively small at 7000m altitude.

Dylan Toh & Marianne Lim: Photos