217 reports · 44 countries
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Türkei · Cappadocia (Mount Erciyes)
What do you really need for a short trip? First: Music. To me, travel and music are truly inseparable. It is the extra something I need for an exotic mix of memories. Every time I get ready for a …
2013 · Hansi Heckmair · 6 min
Japan · Kubiki Alps (Myoko)
Arriving in Japan is an interesting experience. Mandarin symbols grace most of the signage and there's no comprehension of what is being said. It's different than any other place that I've travelled …
2013 · K.C. Deane · 6 min
USA · Cascade Range
Populated by the ghosts of miners, Bigfoot and the words of Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, the Cascades are a land of stories and folklore. By the earliest Native American legends the mountains were …
2012 · Sakeus Bankson · 6 min
Bolivien · Cordillera Real
As I hike, one foot in front of another – the monotonous crunching sound of crampons penetrating frozen snow – my mind, thoughts and breathing transform into a trance-like state of mind. All becomes …
2012 · Christian Pondella · 5 min
Schweiz · Rätikon (Carschina Hütte)
We started searching for a suitable place for our purposes: There needed to be a roof over our heads, in the middle of a territory diversified enough so we could have days filled with variety amongst …
2012 · Bastian Bäumer · 4 min
Georgien · Caucasus (Kazbek / Gudauri)
What is a winter without wishes, dreams, goals? Only waiting for the next snow, observing the avalanche situation in the mountains where you want to be, and the four to five hours in the ski resort …
2012 · Anton Brey · 5 min
USA · Cascade Range (Picket Range)
"Where am I?" I'd wonder, once again awakening cold and shivering. Looking up, I see the specter of my nightmares looming overhead, beguiling me with her contours of ridge and arcs of slope. I try to …
2012 · Jason Hummel · 6 min
Marokko · High Atlas (Jebel Toubkal)
With Morocco people usually think of the desert, sand and sea, and oriental souks. But the kingdom in northwest Africa has other enticements such as the High Atlas Mountains with its eight …
2012 · Sandra Lahnsteiner · 5 min
Grönland · Ammassalik Fjord (Kulusuk)
A tiny fire burns in the snow. A collection of everything we could find – little bits of cardboard, some garbage, the cover of a book and an un-used roll of toilet paper. A bottle of whiskey and …
2012 · Adam Clark · 6 min
Norwegen (Spitzbergen) · Atom Fjella
Six skiers and one photographer embark on an epic adventure to ski fresh powder in some of the most remote mountains on the planet. Armed with tents, skis and long barreled rifles, they journey deep …
2012 · Yves Garneau · 6 min
USA · Markagunt Plateau
The desert southwest of the United States is a magical slice of planet earth. Millions of years of uplift and erosion have sculpted some of natures most bizarre and brilliant features. Steep canyons …
2012 · Zach Crist · 4 min
USA (Alaska) · Alaska Range
At 6,194 meters Denali towers over the already monster Alaska Range. The highest mountain in North America, and one of the Seven Summits, its routes and ridges, couloirs and faces have long enticed …
2012 · Adam Clark · 6 min
Norwegen (Spitzbergen) · Atom Fjella
When arctic explorer, Doug Stoup asked me to join his expedition to Svalbard, Norway, to ski on the planet's most Northern mountain range, I figured it would be more of a novelty. What I didn't …
2012 · Reggie Crist · 6 min
USA · Cascade Range (Mount Baker)
The Mt. Baker Highway is a serpentine two-lane that flows, at first, through dense forest and then impatiently rises from the raging Nooksack River, switch-backing 1,000 vertical meters to treeline …
2012 · Dan Kostrzewski · 5 min
Österreich / Frankreich / Schweiz · Verwall / Mont-Blanc-Massiv / Ötztal
Tine Huber (Innsbruck, Tyrol), Angelika Kaufmann (Zug, Arlberg) and Liz Kristoferitsch (Dalaas, Vorarlberg): These three girls from Austria are passionate about the same thing: Freeriding with a …
2012 · Petra Rapp · 5 min
USA · High Sierra (Mammoth, California)
You're only a virgin once so we had to go big. Especially considering the man of the hour. The task at hand was taking World Cup champion turned freeskier Daron Rahlves out on his first ever …
2011 · Seth Lightcap · 6 min
Kanada · Canadian Rockies
I wake up. My pitch-black surroundings are damp from my own breath. Cold penetrates from below. It takes a few seconds to realize where I am: in my sleeping bag on a glacier camp in the Canadian …
2011 · Carsten Moldenhauer · 6 min
Japan · Hokkaido
In a karaoke bar, we can hear ourselves sing "No woman no cry" through an echoing microphone. Our travel crew - the snowboarder Regina Lind, the photographer Christian Weiermann, and the skiers Michi …
2011 · Regina Lind · 6 min
Deutschland · Allgäu Alps
It's fall, Kristian Rath is dreamily looking out of the window and the Allgäu Alps are already dressed in a wintry white. Soon his alarm clock will wake him up very early. During the winter season …
2011 · Petra Rapp · 6 min
Deutschland / Österreich · Allgäu Alps (Hornbachkette)
After an exciting Olympic winter 09/10 with a lot of travelling, I was looking forward to spending a quiet summer and a snowy winter 10/11 at home in the Allgäu. In early summer I ended up in the …
2011 · Martin Fiala · 5 min
USA / Kanada · Yukon AK / Mount St. Elias
Empty. Already the fifth can of Red Bull today. "I have already cut back; I was by up to twelve a day!" Axel Naglich is a real testimonial for his sponsor Red Bull. He likes the drink, seems almost …
2011 · Petra Rapp · 7 min
Norwegen · Lofoten
I don't know anyone other than our two Italians Giuliano and Daniele, who travels with ten kilos of pasta, three kilos of bresaola, oodles of parmesan, chocolate and tomato sauce. After one and a …
2011 · Bruno Compagnet · 5 min
Indien · Kashmir (Gulmarg)
'No problem, no problem! This is my girlfriend!' says our driver Bashir with a grin, as he blasts the horn and prepares to overtake a splendidly decorated Kashmirian bus. The fact that his …
2011 · Eva Walkner · 6 min
USA · Haines AK
The knife-edge ridge leading to the summit of Rainbow peak arcs into the sky that overlooks a brilliant blue ocean and the small town of Haines, Alaska. My ski partner, Sunny and I have been looking …
2011 · Reggie Crist · 4 min
