karakorum highway

three days travelling on the karakorum highway to the northern areas. beautiful landscape, nice people and a very fast driver. arrived to the village named "bar" the local people prepared a welcome day for us…

high voltage in islamabad

we arrived to islamabad. the cargo is not jet here. we took our briefing with the secretary of alpine club and he renindet us that our valley is on the black list. that means, its near afghanistan and dangerous at the moment. yesterday there was a bomb blast in the capital islamabad. now we wont to leave the city as fast as possible…

ready for the flight

portalege, rope 20m, rope 8.1 grivel 60m, rope 8.1 salewa 60m, tend salewa-base, tend salewa-altitude, sticks grivel, sticks salewa light, houlbag bd big, snowshowel alu, snowprobe, big black bag, 2 downpants, 2 downjackets, 2 cushions, 2 pair gloves icefall, 2 pair gloves summit, 2 pair drytool-gloves, 2 pair gloves big, 2 pair snowprotectors salewa, houlbag mini, 15 hms, 4 jumars, 1 hammer salewa, 1 hammer grivel light, 70 pytons, nutcleaner, candela grivel, bag tnf little jellow, 8 icescrews grivel helix, crampons grivel rambo 4, crampons grivel g14, ropeman, t-block, screwspanner17, iceaxes grivel airtech evo, iceaxes grivel matrix light, 1 set nuts, 8 pairs socks, 5 tapes, 5mm 60m, 8mm 60m, 2 bags grivel, cookingset, cooker, knive, forg, spoon, foot for 40 days, bag salewa black big, 2 salewa sleepingbags1200, 2 salewa sleepingbags250, 2x30m rope 6mm, 2 biwackbags salewa, 2 pair shoes scarpa “gran jorasses”, slacks, trousers gore tex, many dollars, passport, visa, tickets, creditcard, postcards, underware, lighter, pills, pentasa, bioflorin, maxicalz, cortison, immurek, sandales, 2 pair trekkingschoes, 2 thermobottles, 2 bottles, 4 lamps, batteries, roll, trekkingrucksack, 2 caps, pills water, waterpump, 3 cameras, batteries, friends, magnesia, chalkbag, 2 harnesses, 2 helmets, 20 quickdrows, first aid set, carabiners, climbingshoes, snowglasses, glasses, suncreme, triller, iso, toilettpaper, stormcap, blasterplaster, toothbrush, toothpast, stair, chaisi lane, 2 clifs, slings, softshell, hardshell, pullover, t-shits, towel, a lot of luck...

two brothers - one peak

we are planning to climb the nearly 6000m high darvo chook-south in batura-pakistan which is still virgin. the aim of the expedition is a first ascent on the southface. only we two - my brother and me.
on 5th of july our airplane starts from milano to islamabad. after a briefing with the locals we will travel by jeep to the northern karakorum. then we will walk to the basecamp at an altitude of about 4000m. from this point on the area is mostly unexplored and we will have to rely on our instinct...