Andreas Vigl

The Antarctic Dive For his next adventure World Champion Cliffdiver Orlando Duque braves the treacherous conditions of Antarctica to make the first ever dive from an iceberg. After diving off numerous cliffs all around the globe, he travels to the last remaining continent to tick this most daring adventure off his list. The Antarctica with its amazing otherworldly landscape and rugged coastline provides the perfect backdrop for Orlando to finish his most daring adventure in his career as a Cliff Diver. The project was realized through the help of Red Bull and the Colombian Armada, who took Orlando on board during a Scientific Research Mission. Just moments before we managed to take the sequence shot, we were circling the iceberg with a small boat, when suddenly some humpback whales surfaced just a few meters next to us. They took some breaths and started diving again. When I jumped into the icecold water, aiming for the shot, I knew the whales must be somewhere very close to me. Needless to say that added some spice to an already intense situation.

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• Portrait / People
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