Distantpeak.com

The 8th highest mountain in South-America (6700m) rarely sees any climbers. We were the 4th team this season, and none of the previous teams had summited. Would we be the first one ?

See the 57 photos and find out !!

I'm leaving Kathmandu Oct 16 to climb Pisang Peak (6091m) in the Annapurna region of Nepal. The duration of the trek and climb will be 14-20 days.

Successful summit Oct 27, see 95 photos

I recently arrived back to Kathmandu after the Cho Oyu Expedition. I did not summit because of difficult weather, but climbed at least to 7400m.

See dispatches and 105 photos.

Eidskyrkja (1482m), also called Kyrkjefjellet, is a huge mountain that easily can be seen from the road between Stryn and Nordfjordeid. I did it on a beautiful summerday in August.

The Nadelgrat is one of the classic ridge traverses in the Alps (grade AD-). Unfortunately it was too late in the summer to include Durrenhorn as well, because of dangerously little snow in the coloir to Durrenjoch. Read more »

Dom was my first 4000 meter peak in 2007. It's the highest mountain entirely within Switzerland and the gain of elevation is 3200 meters, thus one of the most demanding ascents in the Alps. Read more »

Norwegian Language only: Med nøyaktig 1500m er Lianibba den høyeste toppen mellom Langedalen og Sunnylvsbygda på Sunnmøre. Startpunktet er Tronstad (300m) omtrent midt imellom Hornindal og Hellesylt. Herfra er det ca 1200 høydemetre opp til Lianibba. Read more »

Norwegian Language only: Fjellene rundt Stryn er lett tilgjengelig for toppturer på ski. Man kommer forholdsvis enkelt opp til snøgrensen, selv på milde vintre som denne. Utgangspunktet for turen til Natakupa (1400m) er enten parkeringsplassen på vinter-skisenteret eller hvis vegen tillater det, Bøasetra. Read more »

After having endured several weeks of hard work and technical climbing in thin air, Marcus and I left Camp 3 going for the summit.... Read more »

After two comfortable days of rest in basecamp, I've finally decided to go for the summit. I'm certainly aware of my limited time spent above basecamp so far (2 nights only), but the weather forecast is good and so are my health. No reasons to wait it out any longer..... Read more »