I had convinced Mariana that climbing Volcan Baru would be a real adventure, so one morning we were catching the bus to the mountain village of Boquete. Boquete in itself is a charming place with an alternative feeling to it. Many tourists stop by, and a large number of foreigners have even settled here. We [ Read More ]
Ever since I had turned around at 5600 m on the Huayna Potosi mountain I had been looking for another 6000 m peak to climb. My mind soon got fixated on Chachani. For a week I had been looking up at the impressive peak from my hostel in downtown Arequipa. Together with Matthias and Barnabas [ Read More ]
There are several tours that leave daily for the Misti volcano, but I thought it would be more interesting to do the climb independently. On Couchsurfing I had met Aldo, a local Arequipeño as well as Stasia from Russia and Ricardo from Spain. Over breakfast at the hostel, Bea from Germany was not slow to [ Read More ]
There was excitement in the air as our minibus left downtown La Paz and headed for the mountains. Our small team consisted of Jason from California, Matt and Peter from New Zealand, and myself. None of us had done any ice climbing before, or been close to 6088 meter of altitude, the height of Huayna [ Read More ]
It was just after sunrise as we packed our bags for today’s adventure. The game plan was to cycle a couple of kilometers off road as far as the bikes would take us, and then start hiking towards the summit of a 5000 m peak we had spotted on Petters GPS. A little after 9 [ Read More ]
The weather looked calm as I opened my tent in the morning so I decided to go hiking. Over dinner yesterday other travelers suggested Lagunas de los Tres as a nice one day hike. I was hitting the trail early looking forward to some other form of exercise than fighting the head wind. The trail [ Read More ]
I loved working on the cattle station, but after 4 months in the outback a change in landscape was very welcome. In Alice Springs you are far far away from the ocean, so a holiday in Sydney and Cairns sounded just about right. Arriving in Sydney harbour by ferry it was strange to see skyscrapers, [ Read More ]
As I woke up to another beautiful morning with full sunshine over Mount Cook I knew it was going to be a special day. The goal was to reach the summit of Mount Ollivier at 1933 m. A peak that was apparently Sir Edmund Hillary’s first major climb in 1939. The first part of the [ Read More ]
