High Altitude records the 2013 edition of Alt. + 1000, the contemporary photography festival held in Rossinière, in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. Published by 5 Continents Editions, the book gathers work by artists brought together around a single proposition: altitude. Mountain landscapes provide the immediate subject, but the exhibition’s premise is deliberately broader, extending to aerial perspectives, vertigo, and the ways photography can reorganize our sense of space and scale.

The book is therefore not a monograph devoted to one photographer, but a curated, multi-artist collection. Its 90 colour illustrations move between artistic, documentary, and conceptual registers, allowing altitude to function as both physical condition and visual idea. A mountain may appear as terrain, image, measure, or psychological threshold; an elevated viewpoint can clarify territory while also making it strange. This range gives the volume its distinctive character, setting established landscape conventions beside less literal interpretations of height.

Nathalie Herschdorfer, exhibition organizer, art historian, and director of the festival, serves as curator. Her role helps frame the book as a record of a thematic exhibition rather than a single author’s sustained project. For collectors, that distinction matters: High Altitude preserves a particular moment in the festival’s exploration of photography’s relation to landscape, territory, and scale, while bringing varied practices into productive proximity.

Issued in 2013 in French and English, the 112-page softcover measures 16.5 × 24 cm and includes flaps. Its bilingual presentation and compact exhibition format make it a focused document of contemporary photographic thinking, valuable to readers interested in the history of photographic responses to the Alps as well as in the broader question of how images construct elevation.