While I’m a little stiff when it comes to meeting new people, especially the ones above my generation, Dorit is very upfront and warm-hearted with the older ones. And so we got to know Cecilia and Pablo on the campsite in Rio Puelo just before the New Year. We exchanged avocados, chocolate, bread and biscuits and shared a nice New Year’s meal together along with the other Pablo from Santiago (our trout hero) and everybody…
Have I said that I’ve never been in a police car before? I really tried to remember if I had the occasion when I was younger but I really don’t think so. So, It’s been the first time then. We had a stroll through the Brazilian neighbourhood in Santiago. And I would like to emphasize again, that Santiago is one of the safest cities in South America, if not the safest one. And that was maybe…
(2200m – 6109m) Yes, we had heard that advice so many times. And yes, we thought we were taking it seriously. A good acclimatisation is incredibly important when climbing a 6000er and obviously that was a key aspect for our mountain guide, Eduardo, too. Yet the summit day was the hardest thing Christian and I had ever done in our entire life, and that includes the various child illnesses I had to go through…
The guys had left to climb a 6000er mountain when I started a different type of activity. The 8-hour long bus trip to Argentina was beautiful and impressive, passing closely by at the Aconcagua, the highest peak outside the Himalaya mountain range and for sure the highest one in the Americas. Technically easy to climb but ridiculously expensive. I was not going to approach the mountain anyway. I had enough of it over the past…
Earlier this year Christian and I climbed the Großvenediger, by far the highest peak of all of Austrian’s beautiful county Salzburg. Don’t be fooled, it’s not the Mont Blanc, but it does have glaciers and rocks and all that. We proclaimed it as a preparation for Argentina’s famous Aconcagua[2] and started research on guided excursions a few months ago. Unfortunately, being the highest mountain of the American continent, it also turned out to be the pinnacle…