In 1985, Zermatter Breithorn (4164 m) was my first 4000-meter peak \u2013 and three years later the last for my father, then 75 years old.<\/p>\n
The \u201eentry-level 4000ers\u201c in the southeastern Monte Rosa range were my goal and that of my friends Stefan Behrens and Axel Schmidt.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The highest peak of the Alps (4807 m) will always hold a special meaning for me personally \u2013 as one of the (so far) three major turning points of my life. In 1990 it provided an escape from a deeply depressing life situation. When we \u2013 my friends Stefan Schr\u00f6der, Stefan Behrens, and I \u2013 reached the summit, we looked down onto the world as from an airplane.\u00a0Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n After the climb of 1990 that had carried me out of a deep depression and changed me fundamentally, I developed a virtual \u201crelationship\u201d with Mont Blanc. It kept on being my support and became a yardstick for my personal evolution. Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In 1993, together with Stefan Schr\u00f6der and Stefan Behrens, I visited the comparatively remote eastern side of Gran Paradiso. It was probably due to some \u201cSturm und Drang\u201d that we decided to sleep long after our nine-hour ascent to Bivacco Carlo Pol, started late for a \u201creconnaissance\u201d – and still attempted the main summit at midday.\u00a0Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In retrospect I have realized how indifferent I had become after the death of my father in early 1994, and what kind of risk I had been willing to take as a result. Gerhard Deigendesch from Munich and I met at the M\u00e4rjelen Lake and hiked along the Aletschgletscher into the heart of the Bernese Alps…\u00a0Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In retrospect I have realized how indifferent I had become after the death of my father in early 1994, and what kind of risk I had been willing to take as a result. Gerhard Deigendesch from Munich and I met at the M\u00e4rjelen Lake and hiked along the Aletschgletscher into the heart of the Bernese Alps…\u00a0Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cJochen, will you take us to the mountains?\u201d There was no question that I would fulfill the wish of my two friends Michael Sucker and Erik Jansen \u2013 and because I knew that both had good stamina, I suggested the Monte Rosa traverse for their first mountain holiday. Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n I blame a long evening in a bar in Victoria Falls (Africa) for the idea to climb a 4000-meter peak in the Alps in a 48-hour roundtrip from Frankfurt without the use of any cablecars. Six weeks later I was sitting together with Erik Jansen and his girlfriend Jule. Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n After the experiences of the Bernese Alps and Mont Blanc I felt that I was ready for my first 5000-meter peak \u2013 and I wanted to see something of the world before finishing my studies. So I picked the mountains of East Africa… Read more…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n For three months I travelled East Africa on a shoestring: Kenia, Tanzania, Zambia, Victoria Falls. From Lusaka, where I had worked for six weeks at the university) I flew back to Nairobi and took the overnight bus to Uganda. In the book Snowcaps on the Equator I had come across a picture of the Stanley Plateau on Ruwenzori that got me hooked… Read more…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n It must have been around autumn 1995 when one of our professors at the Geology Department of Frankfurt University complained that nowadays students prefer doing their diploma thesis close to their homes. \u201cAlright then\u201d, said Barnim Schulze-Fielitz, Michael Credner and I, \u201cHow about a diploma thesis with a fieldwork area that is as far away from Germany as possible?\u201d. Read more…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The South Island is wilder, less populated, and more difficult to access. The fieldwork area for my thesis was located in the Remarkables, a mountain chain near Queenstown, and on the South Island I also experienced my best adventures of the journey: the Kepler Track between Te Anau and Lake Manapouri, the remote Dusky Track in Fiordlands, the Rees Track and Cascade Saddle Route to Mount Aspiring, and the challenging traverse of the Southern Alps from Mount Cook Village over the Copeland Pass to the West Coast… Read more…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n After the many books and articles, what else can I write about this expedition? Besides the climb of Mont Blanc in 1990 the expedition and the discovery of George Mallory were the second major turning point of my life, which still resonates to this day. No need to say anything more… Read more…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Breithorn – Monte Rosa 1988 & 1989 In 1985, Zermatter Breithorn (4164 m) was my first 4000-meter peak \u2013 and three years later the last for my father, then 75 years old. 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1990<\/h2>\n
Mont Blanc<\/h1>\n
1993 & 1995<\/h2>\n
Gran Paradiso<\/h1>\n
1993 & 1997<\/h2>\n
Berner Alpen – Part 1<\/h1>\n
1994<\/h2>\n
Berner Alpen – Part 2<\/h1>\n
1994<\/h2>\n
Monte Rosa<\/h1>\n
1995<\/h2>\n
Bishorn-Express<\/h1>\n
1996<\/h2>\n
Mount Kenya<\/h1>\n
1996<\/h2>\n
Ruwenzori<\/h1>\n
1996<\/h2>\n
Neuseeland-North<\/h1>\n
1996\/97<\/h2>\n
Neuseeland-South<\/h1>\n
1996\/97<\/h2>\n
Mount Everest 1999<\/h1>\n
The Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition<\/h2>\n