It took me 5 years of waiting and 5 hours of hiking to snap these photos of Beast, an incredible Italian woman I've been wanting to photograph since I ran into her online in 2017.
Last October, I visited Milan where she used to live, and when I messaged her asking if she was around to make some photos she replied: "Do you want to come to climb a mountain with me and my boyfriend?".
The answer is within these photos.
It was more of a hike than a photo shoot, but we did manage to sneak in a super quick session as her boyfriend and 2 other friends were waiting.
The mountain is called Grignetta, just above Lecco in Italy. Andrea, Beast's BF said it's 7 or 8 on the Italian Alpinist 1-10 difficulty scale. Took about 8 hours up & down. Truly incredible, not easy but totally worth it. I can't wait to do it again. And I can't wait to hang with Beast and Andrea again too!
Ben 💚
Photographed for 'Human Nature'. Oct 28, 2022. Grignetta, Lecco, Italy.
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