The Team Sherpa Blog

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, an aristocrat and a physicist from Geneva Switzerland was interested in geology and was a keen alpine traveler in the late 17 hundreds. He had been looking through his scope towards the highest peaks in the Alps and made calculations that a huge white dome and a mountain massive above a valley of Chamouny would have to be the highest
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Our main goal for this spring trip was to do some high glacier hiking and trying to summit Mont Blanc and Mont Maudit. The pre-trip weather forecast promised unsettled weather and possibly heavy rain, or snow, so we were not that convinced for possibility of higher peaks.Our suspicion was confirmed when we arrived to Chamonix at Friday afternoon. Big snowflakes came heavily down and 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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The first weekend of March didn’t exactly offer us the crispy, sunny weather we had hoped for. In the mountains of Vosges, northeastern France, a damp wind greeted us. And most of the views, that we had looked forward to see, were covered in thick mist. From time to time the clouds also managed to encourage themselves to sport a little sprinkle of rain upon
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Last Sunday I buckled up my new shoes, took a compass in hand and headed on to discover the local Laxou-forest. When I made it to the forest, the first thing I noticed was that I had entered a completely different zone of plantation. There were hardly any pinetrees or other conifers that I am used to seeing in a Finnish forest. Instead, there were
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I wanted to escape the Christmas ‘hurly-burly’, so I booked the last minute flight to Geneva to open my ski season in Chamonix. Very nice nippy -6 C, snow covered village bathing in sunshine welcomed me back and I couldn’t wait the next morning to have a change to hit the slopes and make the first turns of the season. I spend the first
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We are planning to do a ten day trip to the Alps at the end of March 2008. Our goal is to do a ski hiking around Chamonix, Mont Blanc trying to summit Mont Maudit and/or Blanc if the weather and the snow conditions are favourable. There are few routes that we are thinking of. We may try the summits separately or both via
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