Happy Holiday Season
Dear all I guess it is just in time to wish you all a very happy holiday season, wherever you are in the world. And no matter whether you are using the Roman calendar or… (Read More)
Dear all I guess it is just in time to wish you all a very happy holiday season, wherever you are in the world. And no matter whether you are using the Roman calendar or… (Read More)
Apologies for not having written something about the current crazy situation in Nepal yet. You may have heard that there has been a huge shortage of fuel, cooking gas and other essentials in Nepal due… (Read More)
Finally – after having walked across the 63-km-long Baltoro Glacier for four grinding and exhausting days, we arrived back in ‘Islamagood’ four days ago, trying to get used the excruciating heat and life in ‘semi’-civilisation… (Read More)
It seems as if I have written similar entries in previous blogs but I guess we forget very quickly what mental challenge climbing an 8000m peak is. But let me start from scratch. On Monday… (Read More)
I am currently lying in my sleeping bag at base camp listening to the rain drops falling on my tent. It has been incredibly warm and when I came down from camp 3 on Friday… (Read More)
It has been exactly 21 days since we left Skardu and we have actually achieved quite a lot. Sergey, Rene, Simba and I have spent 3 nights on broad peak. The first night we were… (Read More)
A quick update. We have been at K2 BC for 3 days now, settling in and getting acclimatised. The setting is just stunning and even though K2 is the more domineering mountain of the lot, I… (Read More)