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The Swiss side of the Bernina Group offers one of the most spectacular and wild high altitude scenery of the Alps. The mountaineers dream about climbing the steep pillars of Palù or the long iced wall of the North-East face of Bernina. Photographers here are given uncountable suggestions: glaciers, seracs, ridges, spurs and rising moons. I spent many days of my life staring at these giants, first with crampons and axe and then armed only with my camera. In June 2009 I was again at the Diavolezza refuge-hotel to photograph in black and white these beautiful views. The ou come of two days of photography is well represented in these two images which I printed in the 30x40 centimeters size. Piz Cambrena and Moon, Switzerland, is a picture made in late afternoon of a stormy day with a cold and weak light filtering from a thick layer of dark clouds. Piz Palù, North Face, Switzerland, was made the following dawn in a rare moment of clear weather, before the storm would come back again (in my notes I wrote: very strong wind and very cold. Awful weather.) For a mysterious reason, all the negatives made on those two days are seriously underdeveloped with the whites of the snow in zone VII turning out to be barely in zone VI. In my contact sheets these mountains looked like sand dunes. I had to selenium tune the negatives in order to increase the contrast and to work very hard in my darkroom to return to my mountains a more imposing look in tune with their royal aspect.