19 Jul 2015BEreit
Bereit... german for ready! Looks like tomo will be a looong day ;)
Year: 2015
19 Jul 2015
16 Jul 2015Big plan
I always said Canton Berne would be one of the most challenging ones, well looks like I'll soon find it out... honestly stocked and suuuuper scared of the hours coming. Lets hope the weather forecast sticks and Monday I'll be on my way to the Finsteraarhorn. I already packed my backpack so here my pack list: Bike: Mountaineering Clothing: Salomon S-LAB X Alp carbon shoes and 2 pairs of socks Salomon S-LAB X Alp GTX pants
Sottosopra 4.3 – The canton Zurich
The third episode of the documentary about 27summits was aired Sunday 5 July, in this episode I go to the Schnebelhorn (1292m) in canton Zurich starting from the the foggy Rhine river. For the blog posts see
Sottosopra 4.2 – The canton Vaud
The second episode of the documentary about 27summits was aired Sunday 28 June, in this episode I go to the Sommet des Diablerets (3210m) in canton Vaud starting from the Lac Leman (372m). For the blog posts see
Sottosopra 4.1 – The project description, my life in Laax and some small summits
In this episode I explain the ideas behind the project and three easier summits of Geneva, Thurgau and Zug
27 Jun 2015Ticino 2.0
Adula was the first summit I did, back on September 1st 2013. Back then my project didn't Exist yet. I was just trying to go from the lowest point to the highest in my natal canton. Then half year later in canton Glarus on the top of Tödi I decided many things. Among others I decided to go for all cantons. Fast forward to today. What the heck am I doing in Tenero (the lowest
23 Jun 2015Jurassic trip
The plan was big, very big, but once again the conditions and weather said no. So instead of tackling the Finsteraarhorn we changed destination to its neighboring canton of Jura. Originally planed as a Reggae summit (probably around 7h), the the Mont Raimeux can actually be reached by a very long ridge that requires climbing and scrambling. Obviously we opted for this variant adding around 5h of fun to the trip. But let's start from the
The documentary is coming
This Sunday (and for the next 10 Sundays) at 20.40 on RSI La1, while I hopefully will be getting closer to the summit of the Finsteraarhorn, the first episode of Sottosopra 4.0 will air. Here the
12 Jun 2015Projects are cool
Since I started 27summits.ch back in 2013 I kept on discovering more and more people that have their own super cool projects. I love the idea of a project, it is something that you live intensively and that follows you for different time-spans. Some have a week project, some a season project, some a year project, some a multi-year or even lifelong project. Some might be local while some might be regional, national or even
10 Jun 2015A bit of behind the scenes
Well, some days are now passed after the first big attempt to a big big summit. Pity it didn't work but I'm happy of how well it went. I managed to be faster than the schedule on the whole bike part and arrived up to 2900m being tired but still alive which is great. I'm confident that if we didn't have to carry the ski for the whole way we would have been at the