[奇人奇事] 28名登山客垂直站山壁創奇景

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Mind trick: The photo looks as if it has been altered to show a time-lapse, but is in fact a row of climbers in perfect harmony on a mountain in the Italian Alps

怎麼有一根根針插滿整座山？國外媒體報導，28名登山客在義大利及瑞士交界處的「Cleopatra’s Needle」（Ago del Torrone）山峰，利用繩索，一個個幾乎「垂直」般地站在山壁上，遠看就像是「針山」，又像是大型仙人掌般，看起來很不可思議。

根據《每日郵報》報導，這張看似被Photoshop的奇照，是58歲瑞士攝影師羅勃（Robert Bösch）拍下，照片中只見一群人在海拔3千公尺的山上，在繩索連接，沿著山峰峭壁，以近「垂直」的姿勢，一個接一個站得直挺挺。

「這照片是真的。」羅勃說，這樣的畫面共花約5個小時爬山及大量的事前準備才完成。他表示，這樣的照片就是他們想要的結果，可以看到一個個人站在岩石上，他對辛苦呈現的結果感到相當滿意。


Perfection: The project took months of planning and over five hours of climbing and positioning to get the climbers just right


International project: The crew of 28 included climbers from all over Europe who travelled to Italy to take on the daunting Ago del Torrone, known as Cleopatra's Needle


Up we go: The incentive for the photograph was to create an image of true extreme sports