Chirripó Photo Journey to Costa Rica´s highest peak

by Pardo, Arturo; Pucci, Giancarlo; Pucci, Sergio

• ISBN13: 9789930503058
• ISBN10: 9930503056
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-07-01
• Publisher: Pucci Publishing

Summary

Chirripó is a visual journey of Central America's coolest pilgrimage, a new photographic chronicle inside the sacred national park guarding 90% of Central America’s highlands. Following four days shared by four friends, this is an outdoor storytelling adventure for hikers, environmental advocates, and summit seekers, featuring sunrises, sunsets, peaks, and lagoons.

Author Biography

Arturo Pardo is a journalist and political scientist. He graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Costa Rica. After more than twelve years holding managerial positions in consumer markets and the tourism industry, Giancarlo Pucci founded his first social enterprise, the Magical Trees Foundation. Giancarlo is a graduate of the Masters in Strategic Leadership for Sustainability Program in Karlskrona, Sweden. He started as a photographer in 2010 and uses it as a means to reconnect with nature and himself. Sergio Pucci studied Business Administration, photography, and graphic design. He has practiced photography for more than eighteen years and has worked as a freelance photographer for the last thirteen, participating in sixteen individual and collective photo exhibits, including at the World Museum in San Francisco, California; The Munich Theater, Germany; Natural History Museum in London; and the Geraadsbergen Museum, Belgium. In 2014 one of his images was selected by one of the most prestigious photography contests in the world, BBC & London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Photo Contest.