What an adventure! Its a week since we left Nanyuki to climb the highest mountain in Kenya and it has been a true experience. We had lots of sun, rain, hail, snow, fog.....and overall it was cold (well, definitely colder than expected!). Already the hike towards the...
Jambo! Its all an Italian's fault that i am in Nanyuki right now: During my Antarctic expedition a few years back i overheard a conversation about the best mountain books. The book mentioned was "No Picnic on Mount Kenya". Never having heard of it, I read it...
I remember very clearly getting an toy medic helicopter as a present…. for hours I was playing rescue missions on the steep pile of sand in front of hour house, as I was "rescueing" climbers from the treacherous North Face! The helicopter was from Playmobil - famous...
It was just after 7am in the morning, when we finally passed the finishing line. By that time I was shivering, having managed to fill up my boat completely with water (for the second time) and totally soak my fowlies hours earlier. All nine of us, the crew of Stella,...
...can there be too much snow? YES (well, almost YES)!! While the days I spent over christmas and New Year in Austria were mostly in green surrounding – (no snow at all this year 🙁 , it was a total different ball game here in Japan... a heaven for powder junkies! In...
I had the pleasure to visit Harbin, China's most northern town - its name is deviated from the Manchu word for "a place for drying fishing nets". Well they definitely freeze there! Its just 200km from the Russian border, and the 48 hours I spent...
Dear Friends & Supporters, With the imminent christmas holidays and December coming to an end its a good time to draw a line and look back at an extraordinary year. A year in which I have seen lots of success, achieved some long sought after dreams, but also had a...
Another weekend – another race. And again a first... this time a stair race. Stair or Tower Running has gotten quite a big following in the US and with the multitude of tall buildings in HK it seems somewhat obvious to host also such an event in the 852. The race – 82...