Bolivien

In spring of 2026 PowderGuide partnered up with endurance athlete Tobias Renggli, who, together with our friend and mountain goat Heli Hoffmann and polar guide Laetitia Lam, intended to scale, as the first of many mountains in America, Denali (6190 m.a.s.l.) in Alaska, the tallest of the USA, by bike, ski and foot. This is the story about how I became their expedition's meteorologist and how they summited despite non-ideal weather conditions.

From the makers of All. I. Can, comes this year's next great story of human exploration. It goes through the vastness of Alaska to Bolivia, British Columbia and the Himalayas.

Hundreds of people bustle along the streets, selling home-made DVDs, second-hand clothes, fresh fruit and vegetables. Women in thick velvet skirts, their waist-length black hair braided into two plaits, stroll between smelly buses, honking cabs and crashing motorcycles. We make our way through the crowd with one large and one small backpack and two additional ski bags. We are constantly bumped into and hardly believe that we will ever make it to the cab rank in front of the bus station with our 65 kg of luggage! Finally we make it. "Hola chicititas, que es?" The cab driver looks at us somewhat incredulously as he ties the ski bags to his roof. Skiing in the huge city of La Paz seems to be a rarity – but our mission is working: in the next two weeks we want to climb two peaks and go down in history with two "female first descents".