Pictures

Throughout my career as a polar explorer, I've been lucky enough to be able to see beautiful landscapes, meet incredible people and live extraordinary adventures.

I've tried to capture these moments on film (in some cases I've been accompanied by a professional photographer) and I'd like to share some of these with you. Enjoy!

  • The Mary Arctica arrived at Crown Bay with a week delay. She brought two helicopters for the german researchers.

    Working hard at PEA

    27 pictures posted on the 31.01.2012

    Everyone works really hard at the PEA this season. First because we had a delay with the unloading of the Mary Arctica. Second because many foreign researchers came to visit us and work at the station. Here are some shots taken during the first three weeks of January.

  • Gasherbrum II 2001 (part 1/4)

    24 pictures posted on the 01.07.2009

    Here are four galleries dedicated to the expedition I made to mount Gasherbrum II in the year 2001. The Gasherbrum peaks are part of Pakistan’s Karakorum mountain range, a remote frontier region where central Asia meets the Indian subcontinent.

  • Gasherbrum II 2001 (part 2/4)

    24 pictures posted on the 01.07.2009

    Gasherbrum is a remote group of peaks located at the northeastern end of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalaya on the border of the Chinese Shaksgam Valley and the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan.

  • Gasherbrum II 2001 (part 3/4)

    24 pictures posted on the 01.07.2009

    The massif  contains three of the world's 8,000 metre peaks (if one includes Broad Peak). Gasherbrum is often claimed to mean "Shining Wall", presumably a reference to the highly visible face of Gasherbrum IV; but in fact it comes from "rgasha" (beautiful) + "brum" (mountain) in Balti, hence it actually means "beautiful mountain."

  • Gasherbrum II 2001 (part 4/4)

    24 pictures posted on the 01.07.2009

    In 1856, Thomas George Montgomerie, a British Royal Engineers lieutenant, sighted a group of high peaks in the Karakoram from more than 200 km away. He named five of these peaks K1, K2, K3, K4 and K5 where the K denotes Karakoram. Today, K3 as Broad Peak and K4 as Gasherbrum II and K5 as Gasherbrum I.

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