Pally Learmond
UK

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

"Energy Release"

Loose snow pours down the mountain, as skier Tom Leitner takes to the air whilst skiing in Alaska.

Biography: Pally Learmond is British photographer, who for the past 15 years has lived and worked based from various locations across the European Alps. During this time, he has made a name for himself as a specialist in the extreme or freeskiing genre, and has documented the worlds finest and most daring athletes in this field whilst taking in the most far flung mountain rages of the world.