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The Record
The contest, its ten editions, its people, and how mountain photographs are judged.
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Click on the Mountain, 2009–2018: The Record of Ten Editions Under Monte Bianco
Ten editions reconstructed year by year from the contest's own archived pages and the press that covered it — five teams in the first year and four thereafter, a book that fell from thirty photographs to five and climbed back to ten, and a tenth edition after which nothing further was published.
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Four Teams, Three Days, One Book: What Click on the Mountain Was and How It Worked
A ski school in Courmayeur invented a contest with one governing rule — that nothing about the route could be decided in advance — and then spent ten winters building an apparatus of guides, helicopters and deadlines around it.
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Belluscio, Giordan, Bellini: The 2011 Public Vote, and the Juries That Replaced It
The Internet Archive holds four identical captures of the 2011 homepage, and on each sits a public leaderboard reading Belluscio, Giordan, Bellini — set here against the published rules of the juries that decide mountain photography now.