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…

When I returned from Nepal and Everest Base Camp I was surprised from the volume of pictures and videos – 2000 images and 50 videos. Its taken quite a while to clean up this volume. Finally its done and the most memorable images are published in this blogg as my…

I am trying to increase my performance at high altitude and my understanding is that this is based on three areas: efficiency in my movements, my lactate threshold and my VO2-max threshold. With a better understanding of my body I can improve my oxygen uptake…

During the last day I tried to relax and see some more parts of Kathmandu. Its so busy and you find people everywhere. But in some way I think Kathmandu is a charming city. Many changes could be wished for this city but I try…

Yesterday it was time to fly out from Lukla Airport at 07:00 and we all had some degree of tension as we walked to the airport. Chhiring new about the busy startup at the airport so he made sure that the team was there early….

The last two days have been extremely exciting. Yesterday we descended from Ferruce to Namche Bazaar in one single 20 km trekk during 11 hours.  The last two hours were in darkness so the headlamps were great to have in meetings with for example yaks….