Author: reto
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Best of 2017
my top 16 I took inspiration from Martin Bailey’s annual “top ten” process to go through all my 2017 pictures and choose the best ones. I decided to select a total of 16, eight in black an white and eight in colour. selection process I organize all photos and videos in Adobe Lightroom for a…
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Sharp Peak, Hong Kong – what a hike!
Chapter 1 – November 2000 Walking and scrambling up Sharp Peak is one of the most beautiful and adventurous hikes in Hong Kong! An ascent from Tse Uk over the northern ridge, that I did in November 2000 (yes, it was in the year 2000!!!!) still is fresh in my memory. A longish, demanding walk,…
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Megrow Consulting is Going for Year 3!
and now… for a little advertisement: I keep business and pleasure separate on the web and social media. However, the 2nd birthday of my consulting company, Megrow Pte Ltd, deserves a mention here! Have a look at the company website by clicking on the company logo: achtung – unterbrecherwerbung! Ich trenne Beruf und Privatleben ziemlich…
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Pisa ohne Pizza
Three days in Tuscany – everything goes, except pizza and insalata caprese! Why that? Those two dishes are omnipresent where we live, so really really no point coming all the way to Italy and then eat that standard fare… PISA and Luca The towns are pleasantly small, have plenty of sights and yes, we did…
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adding to the list …. show-off time
A plan is a plan is a plan. Walked up the highest mountains of two Swiss Kantons (“province”) Basel-Land and Jura in 2016. July 2017 brought an opportunity to scale the highest mountain of Kanton Solothurn. The “Hasenmatt” (loosely translated as “rabbit’s meadow”) is 1445 meters above sea level at the south eastern ridges of the…
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Another Volcano ?? – YES YES Mount Pinatubo…
the plan ohhh lucky me… whilst taking a lunch break during work, I casually asked a friend whether “doing Pinatubo” over the weekend is an option and yes – a decision was taken quickly. What is so special about Pinatubo? Simply put, the 1991 eruption was the Earth’ second largest volcanic eruption recorded in the 20th…
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The 7 Summits
new aspirations Climbing Sigunyam Mountain (5025 meters above sea level) didn’t quite work out, climbing Haba Snow Mountain (5396 meters above sea level) didn’t quite work either. Hence, I thought it is time to adjust goals and go for more ambitious targets: the SEVEN SUMMITS. (Note: this is an entirely separate initiative from the 26…
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Adding Colour to the Yunnan Trip
The previous post about the excursion to Yunnan had a few artsy fartsy black and white picture in the gallery. To bring balance to the universe, here are some colour pics – enjoy [juicebox gallery_id=”33″]
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Hiking and Sightseeing in Northern Yunnan, China
the plan for the 2017 adventure After a prolonged to-and-fro, we decided to climb a rather tall-ish mountain in Yunnan. The plan was simple (at least on paper…): fly to Lijiang in Yunnan province, drive to Haba village, acclimatize for one day, walk up to the base camp (4100 meters above sea level), acclimatize for…
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a date in the 21st century
Gone seem the days when the standard date was an invitation and a meal and flowers and a movie and a dance etc. Now a bar with WiFi does the job – a clear case of disruption …..