Es war einmal eine schöne, idyllische Hütte im Val di Mello. Dorthin verschlug es fünf Bergsteiger / innen, das heisst vier TL-Aspiranten / innen und ihr Mentor Erik. Die fünf kamen von weit her und hatten bereits ein paar interessante und lange Touren hinter sich. Sie kamen von der Fornohütte, über die Nordwand des […]
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After almost 4 weeks of sun (no i do not want to complain) and high temperatures, there it was again – the cold&snowfall in Zürich City! Although weather wasn’t really good (snow fall and little visibility) we went on a Skitour to Silberen! Now i know why it is called […]
Just a few weeks ago we received the long awaited snowfall after some dry winter weeks or even months. When we started our tour in the morning it was still snowing and we did not have high visibility. Only after 2 hours and 1000 hm the landscape became a wonderworld. […]
Nach einem frühen Start und schnellen Hüttenaufstieg haben wir unser Tourenziel nochmals bei einer kurzen Kaffee&Kuchen-Pause betrachtet – der Ruchenfensterturm Südwand. Auf die Frage «wie die Verhältnisse dort seien und wann die Tour das letze Mal gemacht wurde» haben wir, nebst irritierter Blicke, die foglende sinngemässe Antwort erhalten «Das macht […]
The Jubigrat stretches from the Zugspitze to the Alpspitze. It is an alpine tour, more difficult places are secured with wire rope. In my view, the difficulty of this alpine tour lies in its length and the constant alpine character. The first day we met in Garmisch. There we left […]
Finally I can present a spanish article from my climbing partner Jaime Tinoco. Hannah (Wales), Jaime (Colombia) and I (Germany) went together to explore the Ecuadorian Andes (look my english articles before). English articles about Mountaineering in Southamerica you can find here. Ecuador es conocido por tener muchas formaciones montañosas […]
Finally, it was the “big” day to get out of the town of Riobamba and up to the mountain Chimborazo, the highest mountain of Ecuador. And the climate seemed to be nice. That was great. After a good night sleep we got ready for this big adventure and first of […]
Early in the morning, I heard someone calling my name and shaking the tent. It was the guy from Switzerland from last night. I said, you are back early and what happened. He told me that the weather was miserable and the sight was really poor, so their guide couldn’t […]
After the Cotopaxi, the Cayambe Did you actually know that there are so many Volcanos in Ecuador? Of course you did and as I’m a student of an Alexander-von-Humboldt School, I’ve to say, that this guy named the valley between the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Real „Straße der Vulkane“ […]
Yes the volcanoes of Ecuador standed on our list…we had some projects there to finish off. So after arriving in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and near the zero point, we prepared our base camp for our mountain climbing. That means that we booked in a Hostel in Quito and […]