The Team Sherpa Blog

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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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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Fünf Rheinländer auf dem Weg zum DomWas hat der Dom mit Bergsteigen zu tun, werden sich jetzt manche fragen. Sehr viel, denn mit dem Dom ist nicht der Kölner Dom, sondern der höchste ganz auf Schweizer Boden gelegene Berg gemeint. Stolze 4.545 m misst der Gipfel, technisch nicht schwer, aber dafür eine echte Herausforderung an die eigene Kondition. Der Aufstieg vom Tal bis zum Gipfel
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Die kleine und dann doch große Haute RouteVon Saas Fee nach ChamonixDie Haute Route – eine gewaltige Skitour und ein unvergessliches Erlebnis. Der „Hohe Weg“ ist für die Skitourengänger die Königin aller Skitouren.Das „Unternehmen Haute Route“ war wohl das ehrgeizigste Projekt der Skitourengruppe in diesem Jahr. Unser Führer André Hauschke, Jörg Friedel, Christian Waniek und ich wollten in Saas Fee losgehen und so weit kommen,
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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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