HRP 6: Source de Marmitou to Pla d‘Espelunguere - what an amazing day crushing miles and running uphill

When I woke up this morning at 6.30 it was still 23 degrees warm on 1.850m!…


HRP 5: Pic D‘Ory to Source de Marmitou

Clear night. Luckily the clouds stayed 30 meters below us - so no wet tent and…


HRP 4: Harpea Cave Valley to bottom of Pic D’Ory

Short one only today since I had to chase cows away from my tent for an hour…


HRP 3: COL Basbar to Harpea Cave Valley

The battery of my watch died tonight so there was no alarm for me this morning.…


HRP 2: Col d’Inzola to Col Basabar (almost Aldudes)

What a day! How would my dear friend Martin say: “I am ab-so-lu-tely…


HRP 1: Mainz via Hendaye to Col d’Inzola

  As always I was running behind schedule a bit with my preparation.…


The next tour is coming! Mountains here I come again...

I just realised that it has already been half a year since I wrote the last…


TMB - Tour de Mont Blanc Gear List

Background I hiked the Tour de Mont Blanc (TMB) in 2018 after having done the…


TMB 5 - Tour de Mont Blanc. Kaylee wants to do the whole things. Les Houches we are coming...

We woke up early. It was noticeably cold this morning. According to the weather…