Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA
I really liked walking across this icon of New York. It made me feel like being in a movie and the hike itself was one of the best ways to see a bit of the different parts of the city of New York. I...
View ArticleKhumjung (1): Sherpa Kitchen
Today I will start a few new miniseries. I shot 8 images in a little village called Khumjung, close to Namche Bazaar in Nepal. I will post 4 images this week and 4 more sometime next week, with a large...
View ArticleKhumjung (2): Statue of Sir Edmund Hillary
Well George, we finally knocked the bastard off.” were the famous first words Edmund Hillary uttered upon returning from Everest’s summit. While it is still not sure if he was the first to summit, it...
View ArticleKhumjung (3): Class V, Hillary school
You do not need fancy buildings to educate people. This is the entrance to the 5th grade in the Hillary School, founded in 1961 by Edmund Hillary in the small town of Khumjung. It might look simple,...
View ArticleKhumjung (4): young Nepali cricket player
It was a school holiday, but still many children were playing on the school square. While Nepal never had been a colony like India, somehow the cricket sport had entered the culture even here, far away...
View ArticlePatagonia: tree growing in the wind
Just a little break in the Khumjung files, a good excuse to post some Patagonia pictures! While we were waiting for the wind to stop in southern Patagonia, the Drake Passage and Antarctica, so we could...
View ArticlePatagonia: sunset over Punta Arenas harbour
The strong winds in Patagonia cause fascinating cloud sceneries, every evening the skies look different, but almost always spectacular. It must be nice if you have the time and money to spend on a...
View ArticlePatagonia: Volcanoes in the Chilean Lake district
Ok, technically this is not completely Patagonia, though the area is not strictly defined and this part is similar in nature and just as stunningly beautiful. The Southern part of main Chile is called...
View ArticlePatagonia: glaciers in Argentina, campo de hielo sur. Soon to be destroyed…
One of the largest icefields on Earth is the Campo de hielo, with its Northern (Norte) and Southern (Sur) parts, close together, overlapping the Argentinean-Chilean border. Many large glaciers flow...
View ArticlePatagonia: Happy feet, pinguin hole in one
This is what it would look like if Penguins would play golf :) I am not afraid to say that Happy feet was one of my favorite movies from the past year, maybe so because I saw these little critters a...
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