Marco Volken

Marco Volken (born December 14, 1965 in Milan ) is a photographer, journalist and author of mountain books and alpine guides from Switzerland .

Marco Volken

Life

Marco Volken spent his childhood and youth in Lugano . He studied physics at the ETH Zurich and graduated in 1989 with a diploma thesis at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos. From 1990 he was an assistant at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at ETH Zurich, where he received his doctorate in 1994.

In 1994 he founded the trekking agency per pedes bergferien with Remo Kundert , where he worked as a professional hiking guide in the Alpine region until 2004.

He has been active as a mountaineer since 1981, carried out several first and winter ascents in the Alpine region and in 1986 organized a small expedition to several peaks in the Caucasus . At the beginning of the 1990s he was one of the founding members of the Alpine protection movement Mountain Wilderness Switzerland. His current alpine interests are ski touring, alpine hiking, classic mountaineering and clean climbing at medium levels of difficulty. Marco Volken lives in Zurich .

Journalistic and photographic work

From 1993 he published journalistic and photographic works in the fields of mountains, landscape, nature, sport, tourism and reportage. He has been working full-time as a freelance photographer and text author since 2004, he is the author of numerous publications, illustrated books and non-fiction books. He also works on behalf of magazines, advertising and non-profit organizations. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions, and some of his pictures are in private collections.

Awards

• 1998 Most Beautiful Swiss Books (Federal Office of Culture), for huts in the Swiss Alps
• 2008 Premio Nazionale Letterario Leggimontagna (Club Alpino Italiano) for Badile - Cattedrale di Granito
• 2009 Bündner Book of the Year for spazio - raum - spazi greina

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

• Titlis - Switzerland's playground. AS Verlag , Zurich 2001 (with Daniel Anker )
• Wilderness - a companion through the mountains. Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 2004 (with Elsbeth Flüeler, Matthias Diemer et al.)
• Bietschhorn - legacy of alpinists. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004 (with Daniel Anker et al.)
• Badile - granite cathedral. AS Verlag, Zurich 2006
• Badile - Cattedrale di Granito. Bellavite, Missaglia 2007
• Monte Rosa - Queen of the Alps. AS Verlag, Zurich 2009 (with Daniel Anker et al.)
• Weisshorn - the diamond of the Valais. AS Verlag, Zurich 2011 (with Daniel Anker)
• Dom & Täschhorn - the Mischabel crown. AS Verlag, Zurich 2012 (with Daniel Anker and Caroline Fink )
• Pilatusbahn experience. AS Verlag, Zurich 2014 (with Caroline Fink and Peter Krebs)
• Aletsch - the largest glacier in the Alps. AS Verlag, Zurich 2016
• Blüemlisalp - magic snow and the seven mountains. AS Verlag, Zurich 2018 (with Daniel Anker et al.)

photography

• Leventina and Bedretto Valley - the origin of Ticino. and Leventina e Bedretto - dove nasce il Ticino. Salvioni Edizioni, Bellinzona 2001
• Riviera, Bellinzonese and Gambarogno - deep valleys, distant peaks. as well as Riviera, Bellinzonese e Gambarogno - valli profonde, vette remote. Salvioni Edizioni, Bellinzona 2006 (with Erminio Ferrari)
• spazio - room - spazi greina. Desertina, Chur 2008 (with pictures by Roberto Buzzini, Giosanna Crivelli, Tamara Lanfranconi, Sergio Luban and Marco Volken; text by Leo Tuor ; design by Roberto Grizzi)
• Worlds of rock and ice - Alpine photography in Switzerland. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2009 (by Paul Hugger; text contribution)
• Schüttelbrot and Wasserwosser. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2011 (with Ursula Bauer and Jürg Frischknecht )
• The huts of the Swiss Alpine Club. AS Verlag and SAC Verlag, Zurich 2013 (with Remo Kundert)
• The four-thousanders in Switzerland. [1] , AS Verlag and SAC Verlag, Zurich 2015 (with Caroline Fink)
• Quiet places - another journey through Switzerland. AS Verlag, Zurich 2015 (Foreword Erminio Ferrari)
• Winter closure - Trève hivernale - Passi solitari. AS Verlag, Zurich 2020 (with an afterword by Martin Scharfe )

leader

• Climatic traces - 20 hikes to the Swiss greenhouse. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1997 (with Peter Krebs and Dominik Siegrist)
• Huts in the Swiss Alps. SAC Verlag, Bern 1998, 11 editions (with Remo Kundert)
• Alpine hiking Central Switzerland-Glarus-Alpstein. SAC Verlag, Bern 2000, 4 editions (with Remo Kundert)
• Free view of the sea of ​​peaks. Salvioni Edizioni, Bellinzona and per pedes, Zurich 2003 (with Remo Kundert)
• Alpine hiking in Ticino. SAC Verlag, Bern 2004, 2 editions (with Remo Kundert)
• Denti della Vecchia (climbing guide). Scoiattoli, Sonvico 2004 (with the Gruppo Scoiattoli)
• Alpine hiking in the south of Grisons. SAC Verlag, Bern 2007 (with Remo Kundert)
• Zurich's local mountains. AT Verlag, Aarau 2008, 2 editions (with Remo Kundert)
• Ski touring Central Switzerland. Rother Verlag, Munich 2009, 2 editions
• Mountain hiking in Ticino. AT Verlag, Aarau 2010 (with Remo Kundert)
• Alpine hiking in Central Switzerland / Lake Lucerne. SAC Verlag, Bern 2011 (with Remo Kundert)
• Hiking in the city of Zurich. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, 4 editions (with Ursula Bauer and Jürg Frischknecht)
• Alpine hiking Gotthard. SAC Verlag, Bern 2014 (with Remo Kundert)
• Alpine hiking Ossola. SAC Verlag, Bern 2017 (with Remo Kundert)
• Upper Valais sun mountains. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Marco Volken in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marco Volken's website