Let me start with the end — I didn’t make the summit. I reached 5,900-something meters, around a couple of hours or so from the top. And turned back, despite having plenty of fuel in the tank. Do I have regrets? Perhaps. Mostly because I’m positive I would have made it on the next …
Tag Archives: snow
digging deep or climbing aconcagua solo (6,962m)
After warming up with the Welsh 3000s and Mont Blanc over the summer (and continuing with my regular 5-6 times a week training schedule after that), I felt ready to tackle Aconcagua which had been on my list for a couple of years. It was not the easiest of decisions as I’d never been …
keep steady or climbing mont blanc (4,808m)
To be honest, Mont Blanc wasn’t in my plans of peaks to tackle. After Kilimanjaro in 2014, it was a toss-up between it and Elbrus and I chose the latter, which I climbed in August 2016. But a friend of mine asked me to try it together for his birthday so we started making …
pushing through or climbing elbrus (5,642m)
After climbing Kilimanjaro in 2014, the supposedly easiest of the 7 summits, I started thinking about potentially tackling some of the remaining ones. This is a daunting (not to mention costly!) task and I’m not quite sure whether I’ve completely settled on it, but I figured it’s worth trying out Elbrus, which ranks as …
penguins
This will be a very simple post — just a ton of photos of cute penguins from my trip to Antarctica 🙂 Enjoy!
antarctica, land of eternal snow
Astronauts have said that the most distinctive feature of Earth as seen from space is Antarctica, which “radiates light like a great white lantern across the bottom of the world”. Its ice sheet is over 2km thick on average, contains more that 90% of the world’s ice and snow, and has an area greater …
off to antarctica, the last continent
I’ve had a gut feeling for a few years now that I will eventually find my way to the kingdom of ice, but didn’t realize that I’d be lucky enough to do it (just) before turning 30.
search for meaning in the nepal himalaya
*** Update: Less than a week after we returned from Nepal, the 7.9 earthquake struck… what a disaster! We’re all lucky, but also really saddened by the news of this tragedy that is still unfolding in Nepal. Even the news that my post will be featured by WordPress is bittersweet, the upside of which …
how to start the new year
So what’s a good way to end a year and start the new one? Going to a remote village in Bulgaria is definitely one way to go about it 😉
the sound of the mountain
What better to do on the day before Christmas than get up really early when everybody else is still sound asleep and do some hiking in the fresh winter air 😉
