30 Jul 2015

Sottosopra 4.5 – The roof of Switzerland

Night crosscountry skiing and the roof of Switzerland are the ingredients of the fifth episode of the documentary about 27summits aired Sunday 26 July. In the first short clip I go to the top of Neuchatel at night with 2 friends on mountainbike and crosscountry skis. Then a much longer reportage shows my attempt to reach the top of Dufourspitze. For the blog posts see 27summits.ch/ne and

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10 Jun 2015

A 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

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6 Jun 2015

At least we had the view

We 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

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