Seeing friends at lower elevations
This is just a quick update on what has been happening here on Ama Dablam. After having spent a week at base camp acclimatising and climbing up to the saddle at the bottom of the… (Read More)
Tagged: Nepal
Ama Dablam update October 30, 2013 at 11:31AM – The most expensive sanitary towels in the world
If you get queasy when it comes to women’s issue, then stop reading right here. However, if you are interested in a funny story involving sanitary towels, keep on reading. When Katharina, Shinji, Greg and… (Read More)
Makalu update October 05 – Trying again
This is just a very brief update to let you know that we are attempting to reach the summit again on Monday, 8th October. I personally don’t think that I’ll stand a big chance to… (Read More)
Makalu update – The waiting game
I am lying in my sleeping bag at base camp and it is feeling cold – but maybe not as cold as two nights ago when I was shivering in my tent at an altitude… (Read More)
Makalu update September 22, 2012 at 04:08PM – Up we go
This is just a quick note to let you know that we are leaving base camp on 24 September and are hoping to be near or on the summit at the end of the month…. (Read More)
September 20, 2012 – So near and yet so far
Why do we forget how hard high altitude climbing is? I’m not sure but I guess it is the same reason why women have more than one baby or überathletes like my friend Chrissie do… (Read More)
Gefaehrliche Landebahn
On 8th October 2008, 18 people lose their lives in a plane crash in Lukla in the Everest region of Nepal. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/313/313220/text/?page=2
Flying over the top of the world
British adventurer Bear Grylls takes his paraglider to new heights and flies higher than the top of the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6666889.stm
I’m doing this for all Muslim women
In spring 2005, two Iranian women became the first Muslim female climbers to reach the top of Mount Everest. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/26/everest.iran