Protected: The unbelievable filmmaking feats of our American friends on the Kuril expedition.

Our Karavshin mountain trek in the Pamir-Alay was coming to an end, or rather – coming back to the beginning, for we started and finished at the same point, having completed a big loop. And so the final day of our walk/trek/journey/hike/tough hike/grueling expedition – take your pick – had come. My pick: tough hike […]

The denouement of our Pamir-Alay trek along the Karavshin route was the hike up to the foot of Mount/Peak Ak-Suu. Wonderful and unforgettable, I highly recommend it to absolutely everyone! A short walk slightly uphill, then a bit of a scramble over some moraine boulders, then a just-as-easy stroll along the crest of the ridge: […]

A new day dawned in the Karavshin valley in Kyrgyzstan. By morning the weather had once again turned so fine that… the joy of being alive was boundless – and infinitely so! The only thing taking the edge off was that, yet again, we had to pull off some physical endurance feats that simply don’t […]

September and the rest of fall are once again seeing me get caught up in a whirlwind of business trips – when I’ll have no time at all for getting on with my tales from the Karavshin and Oka River side. So let me crack on during these here few days in the office between […]

And so – tomorrow had arrived on our Karavshin mountain trek in Kyrgyzstan!… We were to be heading off up into those gorges over there – where gigantic granite skyscrapers shoot up some four or five thousand meters, where glacial moraine landscapes spread out in every direction, where the streams run with “glacial milk” (rock […]

Our rambling along the Karavshin route in Kyrgyzstan continues… Next up for us was a three-day out-and-back leg toward some seriously contemplative views in the gorge that goes by the same name – Karavshin – plus the Asan-Usen glacier, plus some plain old mind-blowing granite peaks. First, we got ourselves to our next camp (name: […]