10 Jun 2015Well, 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
6 Jun 2015We all have to take decision but sometimes we don't like the decision that we have to take. This night I had to take such one. The glacier from Furi all the way to the Monte Rosa hut had absollutely no snow cover and we had to carry our ski all the way. This delayed us by over 2.5h. We arrived to the hut around 4.20. We were still 7h from the summit. I needed
5 Jun 2015I just ordered a pizza in Zermatt... stoked
5 Jun 2015There we go... first psychedelic trip started
4 Jun 2015Cloth: check. Ski gear: check. Glacier gear: check. Food: check. Bike loaded: check. Pink Floyd on the mp3 player: check. Lets see if I get a strong head tomorrow
3 Jun 2015It is so far, the nationwide Generali campaign with 27summits.ch as subject has started Monday. Generali approached me end of March asking if I would be interested in being part of a series of adds about people with unusual projects, I accepted and after 2 long days of shooting and probably many hours of editing, two TV spots (similar but in German and Italian) and three web spots (similar but in Italian, French subtitled and German)
1 Jun 2015Finally some stable high pressure situation seems to be arriving over Switzerland which means I might finally get my "two days really good weather window" to try some bigger summits. To be ready today on my way to Bern I took a secondary road over the Oberalp pass (where the Rhine is born) instead of the motorway so I quickly go for a mini check of all the gear. That is also one of the
18 May 2015One of the advantages of being self-employed is that you can trade a Sunday for a Monday if the Sundays weather doesn't seem nice. That is exactly what I did... But since I'm talking about weather let me give you some background information first. Thursday Eliane and I went ski-touring in Zermatt to get some acclimatization for Saturday's project. I wanted to give a shot at a very big summit, the canton Valais. But, and
10 May 2015Coool the premature beer didn't spoil anything :) afrer 94Km, 1300m+ and around 7.5h including some of the long brakes I can officially say that I'm at 13 summits :) who would have sayed that it would take so long for Basel stadt
10 May 2015I know I know don't sell the bear's fur before you caught it. But it was too nice to not stop and celebrate... after all I did (just 3 flat km missing) 3 summits this weekend