Info: Heinz Zak
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Heinz Zak (* 23 March 1958 in Wörgl, Austria) lives as a climber and freelance photographer in Scharnitz, Tyrol.
His mountain home is the Karwendel Mountains, climbing enthusiast as he brought the sport climbing of America to Austria, he helped, sport climbing areas and routes to tap the highest difficulty.
Zak was originally conceived as a teacher, but finally, the photography and climbing into their profession, while he himself can not say what it is that important. Today he is worldwide as a mountaineer and climbing photographer worked.
It takes a lot of very difficult and long routes to the bottom of the tenth degree. Not only in the area of the Karwendel and Wetterstein he opened new routes not previously held or possible first ascents by, eg the excess of the Karwendelhauptkammes in the winter and without ropes, a kräftezehrendes companies, 36 peaks of 10,000 meters altitude in just three days included.
Also in many other mountains in the world celebrated and photographed Zak demanding routes and summits, including the Three Peaks in the Dolomites, in the United States in the Yosemite National Park on the famous 1,000 m high vertical granite wall of El Capitan and southern South America in Patagonia . A route then led him to the Cerro Torre, and at the spectacular 1,400 m high vertical cliff of the Fitz Roy durchstieg it under extreme weather go with a rope until a third route "Royal Flush".
In May 2005 he climbed as second after Wolfgang Güllich the climbing route "Separate Reality", a demanding and roof crack climbing in Yosemite National Park, free solo.
Together with Bernd Ritschel, Peter Mathis and Jürgen Winkler Heinz Zak is one of the best mountain-climbing and landscape photographers in the German speaking countries.
Heinz Zak is responsible for various mountaineering magazines, published books and his shows often breathtaking pictures in slide shows.
For the documentary "At the Limit" with the world-famous speed-climbers Alexander and Thomas Huber Zak did the still photographs and Others from extreme positions of the 1000-meter wall of El Capitan.
In recent years, Heinz Zak also a leading figure of European Slackline scene developed. (Source)
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