World's toughest assignment

He climbed 21,890 vertical meters, drove 3,394km, was up before dawn on 14 days and took 23,789 photos. The Red Bull X-Alps is famed as the world's toughest adventure race. But for the photographers, it could be a contender for world's toughest assignment! Shooting the race for the first time was Kelvin Trautman, one of four official on-the-road photographers for the Red Bull X-Alps*. Below he explains why taking photos was almost as hard as taking part.