AFP's veteran lensman Roberto Schmidt won second prize, Spot News stories, for his dramatic shots of the deadly avalanche on Mount Everest triggered by last April's Nepal earthquake. Turkey-based Bulent Kilic won third prize in the same category for his pictures of Syrian refugees on the Turkish bor
Date: Feb 18, 2016
Category: Entertainment
Source: Google
Terrifying Avalanche Earthquake on Everest Base Camp Captured on Camera ...
Kobusch filmed the avalanche, RT's video agency Ruptly got the helmet camera footage of Belgian climber Jelle Veyt at the Base Camp and AFP photographer Roberto Schmidt got terrifying photographs of the huge walls of snow before he ran.
Date: Apr 27, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
Terrifying Photos From Inside The Deadly Avalanche On Mount Everest
In this photograph taken on April 25, 2015, a cloud of snow and debris triggered by an earthquake flies toward Everest base camp, moments ahead of flattening part of the camp in the Himalayas. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)Prayer flags frame a rescue helicopter as it ferries the injured from Everest base camp on April 26, 2015, a day after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake devastated the camp. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
Date: Apr 26, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
See Photos From a Survivor of the Mount Everest Avalanche
AFP photographer Roberto Schmidt was at Everest Base Camp on Saturday when the avalanche flattened parts of it. After capturing the snow and debris rushing down, he turned his camera to document the aftermath: mangled tents, rescuers helping the injured and the helicopters taking them off the mounta
HONG KONG 0838 GMT: AFP's South Asia Chief Photographer, Roberto Schmidt says: "Hundreds of journalists, two dozen protestors and scores of policemen, some in riot gear and using horses have gathered in front of courthouse."
AFP said in a statement on Wednesday that AFP journalists Dave Clark, 38, and Roberto Schmidt, 45, were released. Joe Raedle, a photographer working for the Getty Images agency and who was with Clark and Schmidt when they were arrested on Saturday, was also released."All those who at every moment of their lives think that freedom is not just a word are deeply rejoicing now that Dave Clark, Roberto Schmidt and Joe Raedle have regained their liberty to live their lives and practice their profession," said AFP Chairman and Chief Executive Emmanuel Hoog. "This libe
Reporter Dave Clark and photographer Roberto Schmidt, both working for French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), and Joe Raedle, an American photographer working for AFP partner Getty Images, were captured by security forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammer Qadhafi on March 19 after they entered
Date: Mar 23, 2011
Category: World
Source: Google
Libya: British reporter Dave Clark released by military
Emmanuel Hoog, president-managing director of AFP said: "All those who at each moment of their life think that liberty is not just a vain word rejoice deeply at this time that Dave Clark, Roberto Schmidt and Joe Raedle are enjoying again this same freedom so necessary to the expression of t