Sherpas play always a vital role while climbing in High Altitude (see the description of Sherpas below). But Sherpas increasingly understand their importance and this causes a lot of friction among climbers. Rests of a Sherpa Walkout, 2013, 10 Signs, Paint, Tape, Paperboard and Bamboo They called for a walkout one day to enforce higher …
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886 – 1924) is the first “super hero” of Mt Everest. He was part of three British expeditions and eventually died high up on the mountain, below Second Step.
Edmund Hillary (1919 –2008) was first to summit Mount Everest in 1953 with Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay. They took a southern route passing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before they reached and mastered a steep step – today called the Hillary Step.
Long Dorje is not a record holder, but he managed climbing Mount Everest well over 10 times which secures him a place among the first to achieve this.
Marco Siffredi is the worlds first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard. In 2001 he chose the Norton Couloir at the left side of the north face. He disappeared in 2002 after making his second successful Everest summit – accompanied by the three Sherpa among them Phurba Tashi – while attempting to snowboard the …
Russell Brice is probably the best known mountain guide in the world. He has reinvented the way mountain guides work at Mt Everest, he is a successful mountaineer for himself and he is a movie star. Russell was in 1952 in New Zealand, as many other famous climbers, and he was always fascinated from ice …
Junko Tabei (1939 –2016) was a Japanese mountaineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and the first woman to ascend all Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent.
Reinhold Messner, along with Peter Habeler, made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen in 1978 and he was first to climb the mountain free solo in 1980. Messner was also the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters (26,000 ft). Messner was born in 1944 and grew up in …
Text by Ruth Staeudtner Sunday, September 8th 2013 at 13:00 SK Gallery opens the exhibition „High Altitude“ of the German painter Juergen Staeudtner. Duration of the exhibition: 8.9.2013 – 6.10.2013. Juergen Staeudtner was born 1967 in Wuerzburg, Germany, and he studied painting, photography and conceptual arts at Free Academy of fine Arts in Essen, Germany. The …
Around Public Spaces 1 – 5; 2006; Oil on Canvas 548 * 130 cm This is a pentaptychon of people on public places dated from 2006. Now shown as a panorama so you can view it more easily – just click on it. I am painting public spaces, such as in the series “Around Public …
