A Viking is Hiking

Due to my hiking guide training and other circumstances, I was quite a bit late organizing this year's hut hike. Usually, I book the hut at the very beginning of the year, but when I finally took a look in April, it wasn't that easy to still find a hut with enough space for me and my six friends that wanted to join. In the end, the best option among the few possible huts was the Lidernen hut, as it was reachable easy enough and there were plenty of nice trails in the area. Un

While I had done a few alpine climbs before, I never did one where I had to walk over a proper glacier. So far, it had either been without snow at all, or the glaciers were that far gone already that I could just walk over it. For a long time I had it in my mind to start doing those glacier treks, but a few things were holding me back: the gear that I would've had to purchase, a course that I would've had to visit to learn the handling and the guided tours that I would've had

In my age, the celebration on New Year's Eve isn't that important anymore. :) So, I had long since decided to take it quiet this year and...

When I had a week off work in the middle of October, I decided to pay our most southern canton another visit. Staying in a hotel in...

Als wir in meiner Wanderleiterausbildung im Botanikmodul im letzten Juni eine Blume vorstellen mussten, hätte ich nicht gedacht, dass...

There are some mountains on my bucket list that are on it since seemingly forever. :) One of them was the Haldensteiner Calanda. Having...

Life has kept me busy this year, as I’m still right in the middle of a training course to become an official hiking guide. It’s been...

Slowly but steadily, the end of 2023 was coming closer and even though I had been out and about a lot, I somehow didn't manage to visit a...

After our trip on the Arctic Circle Trail, we had planned to fly back to Kangerlussuaq to visit the ice cap of Greenland. The weather...