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 ridge, Katharina and I came down to Dingboche for a couple of…
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 I walked to Gorak Shep and then Kala Pattar a few days…
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 set foot on the smallest 8.000 er summit in the world as…
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 of 7,900m, where it was about -20C. A lot has happened since…
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. The weather is looking very promising for this period, which we certainly…
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 more than one ironman. I guess the difference between high altitude climbing…
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
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
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
