The Team Sherpa Blog

The weather is crazy lately and temperatures are way below the average ones in June. Still I need to focus on my training for the expedition and so the weather should not matterI try to spend all my free time in the mountains and the photos I want to share with you are from the last weekend. It snowed quite a lot there in the
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I was “Sherpa blog quiet” for quite some weeks, mostly trying to combine my work and training for summer Nanga Parbat expedition. Being the leader of the team I have already important tasks now in order to get everything ready in Pakistan before we arrive. But this is the nice part of the everyday and it keeps me motivated. My “scientific” life at the moment
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I recently guided a trip to Ecuador. It was a geographic excursion to one of the most interesting countries of South America. I first visited the country in 1996 as backpacker and climbing beginner. With the ascents to Cotopaxi and Chimborazo I started my climbing career and dedicated my self to high altitude areasJ Later on I managed to climb in various parts of
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This winter we still don’t have much snow in Slovenia, although the temperature dropped significantly for longer time and therefore the ice falls formed quite well. In order to be ready for longer mountain routes and especially for the Nanga Parbat ascent that I plan this summer, I spend all my free time in the mountains hiking or climbing, sometimes also in the night which
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Next summer I will try to climb Nanga Parbat (8125m) in the Karakorum Mountains (Pakistan). I have been thinking for a while on whether taking a break after the last tiring season when I tried to climb K2 (8611m) and Broad Peak (8047m) and I only managed to climb the fore summit of Broad Peak (8035m). After quite some thinking I have decided to try
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