Alpine mass tourism started with the European “White Mountain” – Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco – in the West Alps. The mountain has not only sparked mass tourism, but also disputes on borders on mountains: either France or Italy owns the summit. Today the summit is ascended by an average 20,000 mountaineer-tourists each year and …
This article shows paintings you might know already. I painted over them and I put them in context of the concept of “High Altitude”. This series shows Mount Everest by describing its coldness, steepness, and scantiness – its extremes by painting. It shows what mountaineers see while climbing Mount Everest. These landscape paintings reflect views from …
This article shows paintings you might know already. I painted over them and I put them in context of the concept of “High Altitude”. To summit Mount Everest is only possible on certain days per year for most climbers. Even with weather forecast and supplementary oxygen life threatening situations can occur. Weather can change within …
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.
