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!
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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Kangchenyunga 1987 (part 1/4)
24 pictures posted on the 25.11.2008
Here is the gallery of my expedition to the mount Kangchenyunga, east Nepal, I made in the year 1987. The Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world (after Mount Everest and K2), with an elevation of 8,586 metres. Kangchenjunga means "The Five Treasures of Snows", as it contains five peaks, four of them over 8,450 metres.
