Archive June 2012
Whistler
On Friday after the guide course I jumped on a plane to Vancouver via Frankfurt from Geneva. At the airport my friend Mike Douglas picked me up and drove me to his home in Whistler. The last two days we have been working on a ski documentary for Salomon in between sightseeing, running and mountain […]
Guide Course no 3 – Day 6-8 – 4000-meter peak bagging and snow climbing above Zermatt and Valle d’Ayas.
On the last days of the course we moved to Zermatt further east in Switzerland and took the lift up to Klein Matterhorn at almost 3900 meters. From there we traversed the glacier east in a total whiteout and climbed Pollux 4092 m in a snowstorm before we made our way to the rifugio Guide […]
Guide Course no 3 – Day 2-5 – Ecole du Glace and classic mountaineering in Switzerland
From Chamonix we continued around to the Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif to the Cabane d’Orny. On the first day we walked up from Champex and practiced glacier travel and rescue. On the second day we continued with short roping on the lower peaks above the hut and on the following day we […]
Epic TV #7
Last week, just before the start of our guide course in Chamonix I attended another Epic TV weekly show! I had a great time together with Trey and during the hour and something show; we had the opportunity to chat up one of the worlds best free divers, William Trubridge, Canadian pro skier Chris Rubens […]
Day one of the summer alpine course
Today was the first day of our third mountain guide course. We are in Chamonix at the moment and spent the day close to the mid station of Aiguille du Midi for some ecole de neige (snow school). We were going through everything that has to do with snow and guiding (with out skis), such […]
Another day in the mountains snow walking
Yesterday I went up with Morgan Sahlén on Aiguille du Midi to do another day of short-roping and acclimatization. It had been snowing heavy over night and it would have been a perfect day for skiing if we didn’t have to train with the rope. Walking down the ridge there was plenty of snow and […]
Arête des Cosmiques x 2
Back in Chamonix again, this time for our guides course starting on Thursday. To try to get back some acclimatization me and Sami Modenius went up Aiguille du Midi with the first bin this morning. Our main goal was to breath some thinner air, practice some crevasse rescue and do some short roping and as […]
