Lorenzo Gariano
Lorenzo Gariano who runs Botany Bottle and looks after the plants at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, will be climbing the Matterhorn and sending live audio reports and just-in-time photos using a Nokia 7650 GPRS phone/camera. All this is part of Lorenzo's fitness-building for his Seven Summits activities: climbing the highest peak on each continent (read more about Lorenzo's Seven Summits quest).
Some
of Lorenzo's photographs
taken with a non-digital camera
Climbing in the early hours
The ridge up to the summit
Scott on the rope section
Scott just below the highest point
Looking at the Italian summit
At the summit
Speaking to mission control
A vertiginous drop!
A tricky section
Celebrating with pasta
The Matterhorn from Zermatt
