Long Dorje ist ein Sherpa am Mount Everest – kein Rekordhalter, aber ein verlässlicher Arbeiter. Er hat den Mount Everest deutlich öfter als zehn mal bestiegen und war einer der ersten, der dies schaffte.
Long Dorje Sherpa Weiterlesen »
Reinhold Messner wurde am 17. September 1944 in Südtirol, Italien, geboren und er lebt immer noch dort. Sein Beitrag als „Legende des Everest“ war: Erste Besteigung des Mount Everest ohne Sauerstoff zusammen mit Peter Habeler am 8. Mai 1978. Erste Solo-Besteigung am 20. August 1980.
Reinhold Messner Weiterlesen »
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.
George Mallory – almost the First Weiterlesen »
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.
Sir Edmund Hillary – the First Weiterlesen »
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
Marco Siffredi – The disappearance Weiterlesen »
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
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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.
Junko Tabei – First Women on Everest Weiterlesen »
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
High Altitude in Gallery SK Weiterlesen »
Auf öffentlichen Plätzen 1 – 5; 2006; Öl auf Leinwand, 548 * 130 cm Dieses Pentaptychon von Menchen auf öffentlichen Plätzen stammt aus dem Jahr 2006. Diese interaktive Panorama zeigt es nun auch online besser – einfach klicken. Hier ist der Originalartikel und auch das Konzept zur Serie.
Panoramablick des Zyklus „Auf öffentlichen Platzen“ Weiterlesen »
