…a trusty disposable was the obvious/only choice for the Silk Road Mountain Race (SRMR): weighing in at just 100g, no battery or charging to worry about, rugged, cheap, and best of all disposable – if space got tight or I fell into a river it was no real loss.
Having only 20 exposures is ace – it really limits the times you pause and stops the urge to shoot away at every vista, which in Kyrgyzstan would have meant the film was done by day one. Film forces you to capture a real moment, not just an image. I remember taking every one of the photos, and the rationale behind each one – removing my gloves in the snow at 3500m to wind the camera on, sneaking a picture of Stef knowing he was going through a low point and hoping he didn’t hear the camera click, and the elation of reaching the summit of the final pass. They are not crisp or perfectly framed, but these are my snapshots of the SRMR…
For a full feature report, and more on our kitlist & bike setups, have a look at our ‘Extraordinary Worlds: The Silk Road Mountain Race 2019‘ Journal…
