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 not, I hope that the year 2016 will be a good, healthy…
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 to agitations at the border with India in the southwest of the…
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 (semi because of the lack of party opportunities). However, it is good…
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 morning several avalanches came down below camp 1 on Broad Peak. Unfortunately…
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 I had to take off my warm jacket - even though it…
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 at the tiny site of Camp 1 at 5,300m and the following…
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 am also in awe of broad peak, which is majestically towering above…
