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Barrhorn – Video (German)

12 Nov November 12

The video of my most recent Travel report about climbing the Barrhorn (3610m) is now done and I was able to stay just under 13 Minutes! The bad news is that I did not have the time to put subtitles in and there is a lot of German talking in the video. So please enjoy if you are either German, currently learning German or if you just want to see some motion pictures 🙂 Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Chris on 12th November 2013 in Travel, Video

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Tackling the Barrhorn (3610m)

03 Nov November 03

Region: Europe >> Switzerland
Travel time: 2011, August 13th to August 16th
Picture Gallery: Link

I’m completely exhausted after ascending a nearly vertical rock formation for nearly 20 minutes on my way back from the summit. Descending down from Europe’s highest hiking mountain already takes me a solid five hours since getting off the beaten path in thick fog at the top. Even though this will not be a good preparation for my upcoming Kilimanjaro climb in terms of altitude, it certainly shows me how serious it is to summit mountains and how careful you have to be in bad weather… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Chris on 3rd November 2013 in Travel

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