We are on the way towards the mountains now. Still it’s the main road connecting to Chile. Lots of trucks make the way through the mountains. I have some mixed emotions not having my duffel bag with all equipment with me. IBERIA lost and forgot…

All camps are now established – Base Camp, Interim Camp and Advanced Base Camp. Each team member has his/her own tent in each camp. We have staff in each camp making it possible to traverse between the different camps during acclimatization. It’s a hard mental…

Arrived in Lhasa yesterday. This gave us a necessary altitude push with the 3553m. In the evening we could see the outside of Potala Palace which means “land of paradise”. The palace was established in the 7th century. The town of Lhasa can easiest be…

Some of my blogg readers have asked me about data communication. I am not an expert in this but I think I have solved it for this project – keep my fingers crossed….Getting data communication work in big mountains has been a challenge to me the…

This morning we met with Billi Bierling with “The Himalayan Database“. She represents a nonprofit organisation recording data related to records for all expeditions that have climbed in the Nepalese Himalaya. She lives in Kathmandu and is originally from Germany. Besides the work with the Himalayan…

Building towards a team is always a fascinating process. You meet as a group of people arriving from different places, experiences, professions, ages, life stories, expectations etc. I have always been curious about the process we go through when meeting new groups of people. Before…

Three days to Kathmandu departure now! Its so great to be so close to my life’s greatest adventure! It´s time for adventure when dreams are experienced in reality! The most common question I have received lately is if I have seen the movie “Everest”  and the answer is –…

A visit to Addnature in Stockholm – Birger Jarlsgatan is in my case just like bringing children to a toy store, I refuse to leave the store after an hour! I met with Victor Norgren who is the shop manager and their specialist in molded…

Join me at Norrøna Concept Store in Täby on the 15th of February at 18:30! I am going to run a lecture with the title “My journey to Everest”. I´ll give an update to my adventure and preparations for Mt Everest North Col. Some of the…

Hernan designed the new training program and it covers the timeframe until my departure to Nepal in April. I allready made some tests at Balance in Sweden and during the newyears-holiday in Vietnam and could clearly see where the challenge is. Its really tough staying…