Adventure

Shadow Spine

Late afternoon, deep in the backcountry of the Chugach Mountains, Simon Hillis drops a steep Alaskan spine. Shadows stretch across jagged ridges as every movement demands precision. The image transports the silence of the mountains while capturing the intensity of adventure. The pinnacle of backcountry skiing, where risk, motion, and stillness converge in cinematic perfection.

Christoph Johann is a Salzburg-based photographer known for minimalist images that place lone skiers in vast alpine silence, using light, scale to turn fleeting descents into timeless high-mountain moments.