Alaska

The two extreme alpinists Stephan Keck and Günter Burgsteiner embarked on a very special (goal) tour at the end of winter 2009: The ascent of the 6,194 m high Mount McKinley (called Denali in Alaska).

It is now 12.05.09, 11.00 am. ?so one day later: we are now lying in a tent belonging to the Americans. It's the only place where it's a bit warm due to the radiation...

Flown halfway around the globe, and yet the snow is melting here and there. Our Swiss road trippers torture their aged motorhome over the mountain passes of British Columbia one last time in the Canadian spring. They reap what are probably the last powder shots of their Canadian ski season with a sigh of "goodbye winter".

For six long days, we?ve been sitting in a motorhome watching the snow fall in enormous amounts. Almost two meters are stacked up here in the valley and there is no way of knowing how much has fallen in the mountains above. We watch DVDs, drink whiskey cooled with glacial ice, and are just waiting for the blue skies to return to the Chugash.