PHOTOGRAPHY KONRAD BUSSLINGER
Of all the venues the international rowing community visits each year, only one has the magnetic pull of Lucerne. Our inner compass, whichever way we look, doesn’t point north, but towards the Rotsee; an emerald green lake wedged in between the northern offshoots of the Alps, that so many of the world’s best have come to call their home away from home.
It’s been that way for well over 80 years. Although the Rotsee has been used for national competitions since 1903, allowing Swiss rowers to enjoy the lake’s pristine beauty for more than a century, it has since hosted countless ‘first ever’ international rowing competitions.