Matev¾ Lenarčič is a traveller, mountaineer,
paraglider and, above all, a nature-lover. He has climbed in the polar
vastness of Greenland, and twice in Patagonia, where he reached the summits
of Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy via new route. He has been to Nepal 11 times,
climbing the south face of Annapurna I and the north slope of Annapurna
IV in the Himalayas.
He has conquered several six-thousand-metre peaks, taken part and run and led a school for guides in the Nepalese peaks and led trekking expeditions. He has climbed the eight-thousand-metre Broad Peak in the Karakoram range of the Pakistani Himalayas as well as Kilimanjaro in Africa.
He climbed a number of frozen waterfalls in Norway and Alaska. He is obsessed by flying whether with his paraglide or plane. He owns Private Pilot licence for single engine planes and he do a lot of aerial photography. Lenareie was born in Trbovlje, Slovenia 21st of May 1959. He studied and graduated biology-zoology at the Biotechnical Faculty, University Ljubljana.
He then spent five years at the institute for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Celje. He founded together with his brother Marko and his friend Vojko Strahovnik a company EPSI for photography, publishing and propaganda. He has been a professional photographer since 1990. His photographs and articles have been published in a number of magazines at home and abroad: Adria, Gea, Terra, Outdoor Photographer, Futuro... He is the co-author of several monographs and author of numerus wall calendars.
He is the author of Sence and Realization - Patagonia. EPSI have brought out six monographs of his photographic work: The Zgornja Savinjska Valley, Waters of Slovenia, The Logarska Valley Nature park, Savinja River, Mediterranean, ©marna Gora. His chief interest in photography lies in the aesthetic of nature, although he is also involved in sports and aerial photography. He has held many solo exhibition in Slovenia and abroad and given a number of lectures and presentations on his books and travels.
He has conquered several six-thousand-metre peaks, taken part and run and led a school for guides in the Nepalese peaks and led trekking expeditions. He has climbed the eight-thousand-metre Broad Peak in the Karakoram range of the Pakistani Himalayas as well as Kilimanjaro in Africa.
He climbed a number of frozen waterfalls in Norway and Alaska. He is obsessed by flying whether with his paraglide or plane. He owns Private Pilot licence for single engine planes and he do a lot of aerial photography. Lenareie was born in Trbovlje, Slovenia 21st of May 1959. He studied and graduated biology-zoology at the Biotechnical Faculty, University Ljubljana.
He then spent five years at the institute for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Celje. He founded together with his brother Marko and his friend Vojko Strahovnik a company EPSI for photography, publishing and propaganda. He has been a professional photographer since 1990. His photographs and articles have been published in a number of magazines at home and abroad: Adria, Gea, Terra, Outdoor Photographer, Futuro... He is the co-author of several monographs and author of numerus wall calendars.
He is the author of Sence and Realization - Patagonia. EPSI have brought out six monographs of his photographic work: The Zgornja Savinjska Valley, Waters of Slovenia, The Logarska Valley Nature park, Savinja River, Mediterranean, ©marna Gora. His chief interest in photography lies in the aesthetic of nature, although he is also involved in sports and aerial photography. He has held many solo exhibition in Slovenia and abroad and given a number of lectures and presentations on his books and travels.