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Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company, enjoys life on ice again! After a successful aneurysma operation in 2009. And after the notification of the positive outcome about the taken tissues on February 19th: NO TUMORS IN HIS BODY! Sport and action photographer Madeleine Bianchi was present on ice with her Nikon camera to watch the skating of the former elite divison icehockey player: her brother!

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Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company, a former elite division icehockey player, skates on ice. Close observed by Madeleine Bianchi with her Nikon camera.

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Madeleine Bianchi and Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company are proud to present action photos from skating on ice, shot with their Nikon cameras.

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The SKATETRIX PEOPLE
and the two little mice wish you:

Merry christmas and a happy new year!  Frohe Weihnachten und ein glueckliches neues Jahr!  Joyeux Noël et une bonne année!  Felice Natale ed un buono anno!

Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company out of hospital and back in life again.
I am pretty happy to leave the State Hospital Zug after my aneurysma operation.

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Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company in a better mood after the successful aneurysma operation.
Alfred Leiser, MD and senior consultant of vascular surgery at State Hospital Zug, implanted a so called Stent during this operation that lasted 4 houres.
Many thanks to Alfred Leiser, MD, and to my family doctor Vinzenz Zortea!
Many thanks to the Surgeon’s team and the nursing staff of State Hospital Zug!

©Photo by Madeleine Bianchi of Skatetrix Sport Company

Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company had some good luck!
On a CT the docs found a 7 x 4 cm large aneurysma – a bulge – on the left artery of his pelvis.
A life-threatening situation due of the lasting haemodilution!
Alfred Leiser, MD and senior consultant of vascular surgery at State Hospital Zug, implanted a so called Stent during an operation that lasted 4 houres.

Many thanks to Alfred Leiser, MD, and to my family doctor Vinzenz Zortea!
Many thanks to the Surgeon’s team and the nursing staff of State Hospital Zug!

©Photo by Madeleine Bianchi of Skatetrix Sport Company

Madeleine Bianchi and Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company are proud to present action photos from mountainbiking in the Swiss Alps, shot during this summer with their Nikon cameras.

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Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company biked up to Mt. Wildspitz (1580 m) in Switzerland. The three Mts. Mythen tower out of a huge sea of mist. This massif is one of the most prominent landmark of central Switzerland. The downhill from Mt. Wildspitz to lake Aegeri and then back to Zug is a great pleasure for a mountain biker!

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Here the proof. Madeleine did this shoot immediately after her diver into the wild and cold water in the high Swiss Alp. Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company is amazed about her presence of mind to save here Nikon camera. After this intermezzo we finished the crossing of this brook and had then a lot of fun when we talked about the big splash.

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Madeleine Bianchi of Skatetrix Sport Company
tried to cross the brook! But suddenly a bigger splash. She feel no more ground and do the diver. And believe her this water is very cold. A refreshing experience on a hot summer day. But she saved her precious Nikon camera heroically of a baptism in alpine water. As a professional photographer she started working immediately after this intermezzo. And her soaked cloths become dry by sun and wind.

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Madeleine Bianchi of Skatetrix Sport Company has full confidence in the plank set over the wild water by Eric. Taking photos standing on a small plank is not so easy. Besides, one easily loses the balance whilst looking through the camera. A fall into the cold water is not advisable here, because its stream is very strong.

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It holds, the plank! Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company is doing the selftest on the plank. Now Madeleine and Eric can cross this wild water in the high Swiss Alps. To avoid falling into the brook is strongly recommended. Because this water is very cold and the stream very strong with swirls. And downstream are some cascades!

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Eric Maurer of Skatetrix Sport Company sets a plank to cross a wild water in the high Swiss Alps. To avoid falling into the brook is strongly recommended. Because this water is very cold and the stream very strong with swirls. And downstream are some cascades!

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A giant’s golf course? No, this is packed hay! Guess, what’s the weight of such a bale of hay! Between 700 and 900 kilograms as the farmer told me. I found this nice motif on the way up to the Albishorn. The Albishorn lies between lake Zug and lake Zurich in Switzerland.

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Here our daily bread grows up! In a cornfield on the way up to the Albishorn. The Albishorn lies between lake Zug and lake Zurich in Switzerland.

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And this is a more pleasant part of the way up to the Albishorn. During the summer one bikes along cornfields and enjoys a gorgeous view on lake Zug and the high Swiss Alps. The Albishorn lies between lake Zug and lake Zurich in Switzerland.

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This is a part of the way up to the Albishorn. With all its stones and gravel. It’s definitely not Eric’s favorite road! The Albishorn lies between lake Zug and lake Zurich in Switzerland.

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The magic mountain! It still hides crystals which one finds nowhere else in the world. I should tell where the mountain lies? I never would like to have quarrels with the trolls which guard its treasures!

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One can see this if one masters 2.000 meters i.e 6.561 feet of difference in height in the ascent. Below the valley through which Eric Maurer went up in the early morning.

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At last, a rest on a more flat slope. The ascent was very steep. And on ground without way. Over screes, brooks and snow fields. The view rewards for the effort which were necessary to come here up.

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Eric Maurer from Skatetrix Sport Company cycled uphill with his mountain bike so far as he could. Then he hiked all the rest. At the end on ground definitely without way. The reward of the efforts: a sight of stone shark teeth!

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Eric Maurer from Skatetrix Sport Company once more on a mountain path somewhere in the Swiss Alps. The Sony Full HD video camera (AVCHD) in its black container on the top of the rucksack. A Manfrotto ballhead and a Superclamp in the rucksack. And something to eat of course to be able to do a quite hard job!

©Photo by Madeleine Bianchi of Skatetrix Sport Company