Himalaya

Stephan Siegrist has been travelling in the mountains longer than most of us. A short interview about his beginnings, assessments of the current changes in the mountains in winter and the resulting dangers.

Let's pause and just consciously block out everything that's going wrong in this world and how difficult it is to forecast the weather numerically. Kye droppin! Kye Petersen's life is full of tragedy, but his skiing is full of glamour. What's more, Michael Larcher comes back to earth every year to remind us of all avalanche-related things!

You can't reinvent the ski, unless your name is Sean McConkey. All striving for powder and weightlessness has its origins in steep face skiing. So in these hopefully reflective days for all of us, let's go back to those roots. After all, whatever we do in the mountains: style means everything.

Welcome to the new VdW season! Spectators are not the rule at our games anyway and the world probably needs moving images to dream and indulge more than ever. And hopefully our beloved heroes, and those who want to become heroes, will always be able to show us all the perfect white mountain world freely and without restrictions.

From October 10, 2019, Europe's largest OutDoor Film Festival will once again be touring through the fall. With 120 minutes of concentrated outdoor fascination, the 19th edition of the European Outdoor Film Tour will once again present an exciting outdoor film program in several short films.

After the passage of a warm front today, the current will turn to the southwest. While it will be very mild in the north with a föhn wind, precipitation will set in in the südstau. Further disturbances will follow at the weekend, bringing a lot of precipitation, especially in the south, but with a higher snow line than recently.

Börm Bruckmeier Verlag, which specializes in medical literature in a "compact format", presents a detailed guidebook to take with you into the mountains, subtitled: From day trip to Himalayan expedition.

The WeatherBlog starts the season with an apology: He hasn't been following the Alpine weather lately because he was on a business trip to the Himalayas for a while and had neither internet access nor the leisure time to do so, has only recently returned and is drowning in emails and other work to be done. Yes, exactly, these are excuses. Since my colleague Orakel seems to have everything under control here in Germany and the WeatherBlog hasn't quite mentally returned yet, this time it's all about a different mountain region.

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.

Basti Haag is one of the best-known German-speaking extreme ski mountaineers. On September 23, 2012, Basti narrowly escaped one of the biggest avalanche accidents in Nepal. 30 people were buried in the avalanche - unfortunately 11 died. Basti was one of the first people at the scene of the accident. PG spoke to him about his experiences.

By mountain bike from Kathmandu (Nepal) via the "Friendship"-Highway, over the main Himalayan ridge to Tibet and to Mount Everest Base Camp (5400 m above sea level).

Today is to be our first day in the fresh, untracked Kashmir powder. We meet our guide Mamout, who immediately tells us that the gondola won't be running today...