Everest Three Passes Trek
Trek over the passes Renjo La, Cho La and Kongma La to Everest Basecamp, and to vantage points such as Gokyo Ri, Ngozumba Tse, Kala Patthar and Chhukhung Ri.
Year: 2013
Langtang-Trek and Gosainkund
The Langtang Valley, in the mountain range closest to Kathmandu, is the destination of this popular trek in Nepal. Vantage points such as Tsergo Ri, Kyanjin Ri and Morimoto Base Camp are worthwhile, with views of large glaciers and some six-thousand-metre peaks. A side trip leads to the Gosainkund mountain lakes.
From Kandersteg to Grindelwald: Trekking in the Bernese Oberland
5-day hike in Switzerland: Kandersteg via Oeschinensee, Blümlisalphütte, Sefinafurgga to Mürren (cable car); Kleine Scheidegg, Eigertrek, Grindelwald (cable car), First to Schynige Platte
A sample of the Moho
Since I don’t have any recent photos to show, here is a picture of a rock sample that has been lying around in my room for a long time. It is one of my favourite samples because I can torture every geoscientist who visits me with the question of what he sees here. Two different … Continue reading “A sample of the Moho”
Rammelsberg mine
Old mine in the huge SEDEX deposit in the Harz Mountains
Patagonia
Two months on the southern tip of South America
Hike around Cerro Castillo
The most famous mountain on the Carretera Austral in the remote south of Chile looks like a fairy-tale castle; on a hike there are mountain lakes and viewpoints to discover
The Petrified Forest of Sarmiento
Petrified trunks of Cretaceous palms and conifers in the Patagonian steppe (Argentina)
Perito Moreno National Park and trek to Cerro San Lorenzo
Lonely wilderness, Patagonia as you imagine it: The scarcely visited national park in Argentina offers impressive views and solitude and the third highest mountain in Patagonia towers above the steppe as a wall of ice and rock
Cueva de los Manos
Early history in a beautiful gorge (Patagonia, Argentina)
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego
Hikes at the “End of the World”: Views, bays and bogs in Tierra del Fuego National Park (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina)
Punta Arenas
Penguins, wrecks and craters — Excursions to Isla Magdalena and along the Strait of Magellan to Pali Aike (Patagonia, Chile)