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When covering Greeenpeace activists abseiling and hanging banners from a large crane at the construction site of a new nuclear power station in Flamanville, France takes you beyond the realm of normal reportage, it's always a personal and sometimes diffcult call.

To photograph the action, I had to become part of it, which meant getting onto that crane with a team of 4 climbers in order to be at the right place at the right time - in this instance in about 30 metres height at the end of a rope. Pictures and video footage needed to be transmitted from the site, as underneath us the inevitable police and security guards made a getaway impossible. The ensuing 1 1/2 days on top of the crane, with luxurious and generously spaced accommodation for a team of 5 inside a crane driver's cabin proved testing and entertaining at the same time.