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 […]
Packing for guides course No3: Summer Alpine climbing course
I’m on my way back to the Alps tomorrow for guides course No3: Summer alpine climbing. We will start in Chamonix next Thursday and then go somewhere in Valais, Switzerland. At least that’s plan A, but if the weather is bad we might go somewhere else. It’s going to be awesome go back to Chamonix […]
Film work in Luleå
The last few days good friend Bjarne Sahlén has been around at my parents’ home in Luleå to finish the audio for the film about our South America adventure last autumn. After 164 takes Bjarne was happy. It was good to have him around, but it´s really demanding working with audio for films… Bjarne in […]
A weekend in Ylläs
This last weekend Ale and myself went up to Ylläs in the Finnish Lapland. Ylläs has been my hideout my whole life where I can reboot, calm down and just be. So we practiced the fine art of doing nothing for a few days. Nothing can also be something. Ale is behind the camera on […]
