Silvretta Tour

Day 5 on Austria’s Silvretta Tour. This is my first ever post from a hut with wireless. How much better can Euro huts get…? Wireless does it for me. As usual we are finding ourselves in an amazing landscape, skiing great snow, eating excellent food and meeting fun people. The days are full, breakfast at [...]

India

Incomprehensible.For the western tourist in India, this is the word one keeps coming back to when considering India as a player in the modern world. Incomprehensible – incredibly so.Staggering poverty, disease, filth, toxic pollution levels, and an infrastructure bordering on the absurd – in India even the new buildings seem to be ready for the [...]

In India part 1

The fact that the cobra’s head was not 20 cm from my bare calf, and flicking it’s tongue at me, and I had nowhere to go to move out of the way was not what even caught my attention. What did was that I was there, amongst it all, and it felt perfectly normal: no [...]

Berg Heil

The last time I was on the summit of the Magerstein was with Janine, a group of friends and a topless Italian woman. Today, I am all alone, there is no one to offer a Berg Heil to, only myself and the silence. Ironically, it is likely my last day in the mountains until I [...]

A free day, a bike and an iPhone

The more I climbed, the more clothes I needed to put on. When I arrived on the pass, my high point, I was out of clothing. The problem is, I am also freezing. If I am cold going up, and now I have to descend 900 meters, the real problem is obvious. So I pull [...]

Live Blog while running the Alta Via 1

Thanks to the iphone, this is our first on location Blog entry.Together with Andreas Irsara, I am running a section of the Dolimite’s most famous trail in preparation for guiding a running tour next summer.Andreas is a guide and owner of our partner site, www.holimites.com, and will be offering a 6 day running tour through [...]