Double Delight
Usually the end of a year - or the beginning of a new one - marks the period of looking back. Unfortunately last year didn't quite turn out to be THE year to be looked back at. And so I will take the freedom to look back even further, to a…
Circo de los Altares
Behind Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre lies a place most visitors to El Chaltén will never see. This is the story of my visit to Circo de los Altares — an otherworldly place stuck between ice and vertical granite on the edge of the Southern…
Gentle Call
Früh aus dem Bett zu kriechen, um weit vor Sonnenaufgang einen Spaziergang mit ungewissem Ausgang zu machen, wird für mich oft zu einer mentalen Herausforderung. Die Ungewissheit, die mit der Landschaftsfotografie einhergeht, hat mich…
Gentle Call
Leaving bed early to go on a pre-dawn walk with unknown outcome often turns into a mental challenge for me. The uncertainty that comes with landscape photography made me change my mind many times before. I have skipped alarms, turned…
Breathing Space
Interaction with other human beings had been limited for the past eight days. We were going south on isolated roads alongside the chilean/bolivian border. We passed few trucks carrying their heavy loads, blowing huge clouds of black smoke…
Into the White
If you visit Antarctica chances are high that at some point you end up at Port Lockroy, a british base on Goudier Island. For most visitors arriving aboard their comfortable cruise ships the highlight is sending greeting cards from the…
Into the White
Wer die Antarktis besucht kommt früher oder später unweigerlich in Port Lockroy, einer britischen Forschungsstation auf Goudier Island, vorbei. Für die meisten Besucher, an Bord ihrer komfortablen Kreuzfahrtschiffe, ist der Höhepunkt das…
Relaunch 2020
What has long been overdue was finally accomplished: A few days ago I hit the publish button on the project that I had been working on for almost a decade - my website. Well, of course I haven't spent 10 years actively working on it, but…
The Walls of Huayhuash
Exactly one year ago I was on a 12-day trek around Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru. I will not have to introduce this place to those of you who read Joe Simpson's incredible book "Touching the Void". For those who haven't: Cordillera…
The Walls of Huayhuash
Vor genau einem Jahr war ich auf einer 12-tägigen Wanderung um die Cordillera Huayhuash in Perú. Denjenigen unter euch, die Joe Simpsons unglaubliches Buch "Touching the Void" gelesen haben, werde ich diesen Ort nicht vorstellen müssen.…
