The German Centre for Aviation and Space Travel created very precise digital pictures of the Alpine mountains with the aid of satellite photographs taken from a height of several hundred kilometres. This title presents these mountain portraits along with personal accounts written by some of the finest climbers in the world.
Stefan Dech is director of the German Remote Sensing Data Centre at DLR’s Earth Observation Centre. Reinhold Messner is a legendary mountaineer. Nils Sparwasser heads the ‘Science Communication and Visualization’ division at the German Remote Sensing Data Centre at DLR’s Earth Observation Centre.