Tag: Rockclimbing
Photo book “Mountains” by Peter Mathis – Travel
The Matterhorn. An ideal mountain. If children are asked to paint a mountain, they will almost certainly come up with the shape of the Matterhorn – an acute triangle or,…
How mountain rescue has changed – Bavaria
Christoph 17 is standing high in the air, under the orange rescue helicopter, in the steep terrain, everything is prepared. One of the men wearing the yellow safety vest with…
Thomas Huber is injured during a tour on Untersberg: helicopter use – Bavaria
As extreme climbers and professional mountaineers, the “Huberbuam” from Berchtesgaden have already conquered numerous routes and peaks on various parts of the world – right up to the first ascent…
Alpine accident: Huberbua hangs from the helicopter
Extreme climber Thomas Huber was injured during a tour on his local Untersberg and had to be flown out in a rescue helicopter. source site
The Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary – Bavaria
One anniversary is nice, several anniversaries are even nicer: In this respect, the Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival team refers to several anniversaries, even if not all of them have a…
Reinhold Messner doesn’t want to be in the Guinness Book of Records – Panorama
The dispute between mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner and the Guinness Book of Records over the ascent of all 14 eight-thousanders is entering a new round. The 79-year-old announces that he…
Accident in the Himalayas: Death on Shishapangma
Two American mountaineers are vying for an eight-thousander record – and get caught in two different avalanches within a short space of time. source site
In the middle of Bavaria: Lost on the mountain
Again and again climbers get into trouble, often through their own fault. But sometimes rescuers find them in the parking garage. source site
Andelsbuch: Chair broke away from cable car – Munich vacationers crashes – Munich
From Martin Bernstein In an accident with a chairlift, a holidaymaker in Munich fell four meters in Austria on Friday and was seriously injured. The operation of the 51-year-old cable…
Accident at the bottleneck of K2: could mountaineer Hassan have been helped? -Panorama
A Pakistani porter has died on K2 as several climbers passed him. Would he have been helped if he had been a western climber? Muhammed Hassan is below the “bottleneck”,…