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4 Globetrotter inside
»We don’t deliver to your tent (yet)«
Globetrotter Ausrüstung on all channels: The new iPhone App offers an integrated online
shop, a product scanner, geographic information and much more. 4-Seasons talked with
Martin Haag, head of the in-house editorial office, who has drafted the App.
Martin, the App looks very neat – but why do you
need a product scanner that only works in the shop?
If there is no sales person nearby you can get all the
information on the product in the shop, including
cus tomers’ feedback. Definitely additional value.
You can also use the App as a delivery service for
bulky goods – instead of buying a paddle and carrying
it through the city you can simply order it online
and get it delivered, all while you’re still in the shop.
What else can the App do?
The main feature is the smart-phone optimised online
shop. Furthermore, there are brilliant photos,
news, event dates and 4-Seasons to download.
What is your favourite feature?
It is called »Orte« which shows events, 4-Seasons
articles and videos close to my location or my next
holiday spot. Start travelling with your fingertips to
get inspiration. We also present our stores, including
a virtual visit and route planer. You can switch
off the function if you don‘t want to be located.
What is customers’ initial feedback like?
Pretty good, many have waited long for the App. Of
course there are critics who don’t tolerate little
bugs. We offered a test version via facebook before
publication which was used intensively. Thanks to
those test customers we are already at the second
update. We survived the childhood ailments. We are
happy if you use the feature »Lob & Tadel« and we
reply to every feedback, I promise!
Outdoor is an escape from everyday life. Do I really
need a shopping App in my tent?
The trend is towards mobile internet and online orders,
many customers expect an excellent App. It
also comes in handy for the occasional visitor on our
website: imagine a tent pole breaks somewhere – you
can order a replacement straight away and get it delivered
to the next post office or the youth hostel.
So, Globetrotter doesn’t deliver straight to your tent?
Not yet. We have to keep something for the App’s
next update ;-)
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Living the Dream: Seven months in Africa
Cycling from Cape Town to Cairo.
News
News from the Globetrotter world.
Projects: Go climb a sea stack!
Climbing rock towers in Scotland.
Travel Tip: Palatinate forest path
Hiking into the wide countryside.
Travel: Best of Mecklenburg
Tour by bike, canoe and hiking boot.
Lucky Cards
Events for Globetrotter loyalty card holders.
Manufacturer: Hilleberg
On a trip with Sweden’s tent pope.
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Travel: Lake District
Family holiday in England’s outdoor region.
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Converted to a Globetrotter.
Dream Trip: Slot Canyons in Utah
A magical world made of light and rock.
Getaway
Globetrotter’s highlights in autumn.
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EXPEDITION:
SHARK’S FIN
MERU, GARWHAL HIMALAYA Mugs Stump’s Versuch, die Shark’s Fin
zu besteigen, scheiterte an einem
Lawinenabgang
Conrad Anker im Meru Hardshell an einer
der Schlüsselstellen der Route. Foto: Jimmy Chin
JUNI / Starker Schneefall zwang das
Team dazu, vier Tage in der Wand
zu verweilen. Am 18. Tag gelang es
ihnen, bis 100 Meter unter den Gipfel
zu steigen – aber nicht weiter.
Nach zwei Tagen Abstieg waren
sie wieder in Sicherheit.
Conrad Anker, Doug Chabot und Bruce Miller
schafften die Besteigung wegen Schnee
und mangelnder Ausrüstung nicht Conrad Anker
OKTOBER / Conrad Anker trägt das
Radish Midlayer Jacket mit längeren
Ärmeln und Daumenschlaufen,
Helm-kompatibler Kapuze
und einer Brusttasche
Hiroyoshi Manome musste seinen vierten
Versuch abbrechen, als sich sein Partner
in 6.050 Meter den Knöchel brach
1986 2003 2004
2006
2008 2009 - 2010 Einblicke in die Entwicklung des Meru-Kits –
2011
Innovationen getrieben von widrigsten
Wetterbedingungen am Meru
OKTOBER / Das Meru Gore und das
Shaffle Jacket halten Expeditions-Führer
Conrad Anker und sein Team nach
der Erstbesteigung am Gipfel warm
Mehr Informationen zur Meru Kollektion
und der Erstbesteigung unter thenorthface.com
Mehrere internationale Teams versuchten
vergeblich den Gipfel des Meru
durch die Shark’s Fin zu besteigen
“In den extremsten Momenten
musst du dich auf dein Gefühl verlassen.”
—Bergsteigerlegende Conrad Anker hat alle Erfahrungen aus 30 Jahren
für die Erstbesteigung der Shark’s Fin genutzt
Wissen gewinnt man durch Erfahrung. Conrad Anker war entschlossen, die perfekte Route am Meru zu
klettern. Auf Basis von Zeichnungen, die Conrad auf Expeditionen und in gemeinsamen Sessions mit
seinen Kletterpartnern anfertigte, entwickelte The North Face ® eine Kopf bis Fuß Ausstattung für das
gesamte Team – abgestimmt auf die unterschiedlichen Kletterstile und die rauhen Wetterbedingungen
am Meru. Das Radish Midlayer Jacket, das Meru Gore Jacket, die Bib und das Shaf e Jacket bieten
absoluten Schutz und Isolierung beim Klettern in Temperaturen von bis zu -20 Grad. Conrad, Jimmy
Chin und Renan Ozturk waren die ersten aus über 30 Teams, die durch die Shark’s Fin gestiegen sind.

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Wide Awake
in Africa
Interview: Cindy Ruch | Photos: Fabian Nawrath
12 hours to get there, 7 months to get back: Tim Starck
and Fabian Nawrath flew to Cape Town and cycled back
home through the whole of Africa. The result: hair-raising
adventures, fantastic experiences, 9,000 euro donation to
charity and the award »Globetrotter of the Year«.

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My beautiful laundrette:
Lake Tanganjika, Zambia.
All the way from Cape Town to Cairo – mostly on dirt roads.
You’re in your early twenties, have just left school and led a
sheltered life – why did you decide to start with such a big
tour? Wasn’t a 12,000 kilometre cycle tour through Africa
a bit out of your league?
Tim: We weren‘t so mollycoddled. Fabian backpacked around Tunisia
and Morocco before, I visited friends in Kenya. We realised
quickly that Africa is different than the picture we receive in Germany.
There is so much vibrancy and enjoyment to be found!
Fabian: It wasn’t our aim to act the part of the hero and survive the
most dangers. For most Europeans, Africa is still the blank spot on
the map and full of negative news; people first think about wild
animals and bandits but we wanted to see what else there is and
document it.
What was it like to start cycling into the unknown?
Fabian: Pretty easy going. South Africa is very similar to Europe.
Behind the Namibian Redline however, the real Africa started. A
redline is supposed to keep the wild animals out of South Africa,
however, we experienced it rather as a cultural boarder.
Did you meet lions and men with weapons?
Tim: There are hardly any lions left outside the national parks.
Crocodiles and lions didn’t cross our way either.
Fabian: We got arrested a few times though…
You got arrested!
Fabian: The word »arrested« gets used frequently in Africa. Not
every arrest ends up in prison. One night, we camped in a cornfield,
in the middle of the boarder area between Zambia, Malawi,
Tanzania and Congo. A pick-up appeared in the middle of the >

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night, high beam straight into our tent. Right in front of us was a rious, so we wanted them to drive us to the next police station. Ined
to a farm. It was one of the areas we felt the safest. Back home Did you feel ready for such a big trip at the ages of 19 and 20?
group of soldiers carrying Kalashnikovs. The first ten minutes were stead, they wanted to bring us back down into the valley we had
in Germany, we heard that a warning had been issued by the Fed- Tim: At the beginning, I felt mature enough. In between, pretty
pretty tense. The soldiers must have been our age, luckily they just struggled to climb out of – 1,000 metres lower down. Suderal
Foreign Office because of the civil war: They wrote about naïve. And in the end, mature again.
weren’t aggressive. It’s rather the officials who like to play their denly the man with the handcuffs grinned: How much were we
mass murder and villages on fire.
Fabian: It might have been naïve that we didn’t know how to fix
little games. They accused us of being Israeli spies. Everybody willing to pay? We suggested the price for a couple of cokes worth
spokes. We brought all the tools with us but didn’t have a clue how
calm ed down when we exchanged some words of English. In the about four euros. They demanded 30 euros for each of us. In the
So you didn’t read up on the news what was happening?
to take our bikes apart.
end, they put our tent and the two of us on their pick-up and drove end, we payed 20 euros for both of us – which is still a lot of
Fabian: We did watch BBC and read Spiegel Online. You’re always
us two kilometres down the road where we could camp in the bush. money given the circumstances over there.
shocked when you read their news: civil war in Sudan! However, The interview takes places in an Ethiopian restaurant. Tim and
that‘s just the information for the European audience. Sudan is Fabian like what the menu has to offer and explain each dish to
Did you offer a bribe to get away?
It doesn’t sound like the vibrancy and enjoyment you had
the third biggest state in Africa and the civil war didn‘t spread all me. When the owner of the restaurant brings us our food, he only
Tim: Not in this case. That happened in Kenya when we hung on expected…
over the state.
carries one big plate and puts it in the middle of the table.
the back of a truck to get up a hill. We were stopped and threat- Tim: It was an exception to get arrested. Most of the time we had
Tim: We regularly checked the maps on the website of the UN
ened with weapons and handcuffs. »You’re arrested«, they shout- fantastic experiences – mostly in places where we least expected
peacekeepers. The civil war went through South Sudan and we Is it common to eat from one big plate in Ethiopia?
ed. Apparently it is illegal to hang on the back of a truck there. it. For example, Uganda was just like paradise: happy kids, peace-
just cycled past. Other travellers and locals were also important Tim: Yes, it’s such a great experience. You always get a big injera
Fabian: They weren‘t wearing any uniform but were absolutely se- ful countryside, tranquillity and very friendly people. We got invit-
sources for information.
with your dish, a sponge-like pancake made out of teff flour. >
»We wanted to see the other picture of Africa,
not only the negative news that we receive
in Germany.«
This is Africa: Jesus with a stick, cycle taxi with a redundant cockpit system.
Hustle and bustle and solitude:
Twyfelfontein valley in
Namibia.

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»You can either vent your anger at each other or
you can bear it together,
whatever you feel like.«
Broken spokes somewhere in nowhere. There will be help. Soon…
You can grab the meat and vegetables with it.
Fabian: In Ethiopia, everybody shares the food. Quite often people
in restaurants simply invited us to their table. They wanted to
share their food and hear our stories. Sometimes we got handed
over from one table to another – so when our food arrived, we were
not hungry any more.
What is it like when locals meet cyclists?
Tim: On a bike you’re more accessible than in a car or a bus. We
often stopped and joked around with the kids, let them have fun
with our bikes. They were happy.
Fabian: Asking for water was another way of getting in contact
with the locals.
Water management must be an important issue on such a tour…
Fabian: In South Africa, we always bought bottled water. We got
out of this habit pretty quickly: First, we drank tap water and later
on, simply water from running rivers and streams. We even got rid
of the water filter and just copied the locals’ habits. The Nile was
brown and dirty during the wet season in Ethiopia. People still
scooped water and waited until the dirt went to the bottom so that
the water was clear and you could drink it.
Tim: One of the most important lessons we learnt was that there is
always water where there are people. We never carried more than
three litres of water with us, even through the desert.
Did you get mugged?
Tim: My bicycle disappeared once – luckily we caught the thief.
He tried to explain he wanted to hide it in a better spot.... And I
lost my wallet, however, I’m not sure if I forgot it or if it got stolen.
On the bright side: A man brought me my wallet after I left it on
the back of my bike. Not a single coin was missing!
Fabian: The same happened with my GPS. We started cycling down
the hill and after 500 metres I realised that I hadn’t put it back into
my bag. I turned around immediately – 30 children were running
towards me, screaming and shouting and holding my GPS. >
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You were pretty lucky, weren’t you?
Tim: It was probably the right combination: A lot of luck and our
trust in people.
You didn’t know each other before the trip. How did you get to
know each other?
Fabian: After finishing high school, I packed my bike and started
cycling off to Egypt. While in Istanbul, I received an offer from my
Looking for gold in Sudan.
»Once we accidentally bought a whole bunch of bananas. We
put them on the back of the bike and munched bananas in
the morning, at lunch time, in the evening.«
university. Ever since then I never stopped dreaming about Africa.
I stumbled across a post on the internet (radreise-forum.de) from
Tim. He was looking for a cycling companion. That was to be me.
Tim: When I was in seventh grade I read the travel book »Radnomaden«
by Sarah Pendzich and Markus Fix who had cycled
through China. I really liked their story and wanted to go on a trip
like them. However, the country lost its fascination over the years,
mainly because of communism. So I visited friends in Kenya and
it became immediately clear that it should be Africa instead of
China. None of my friends wanted to join so I posted my plans online.
Did the two of you get along straight away?
Tim: We went on a little test trip together. It all started a bit slow
which was totally fine. I mean, you can’t talk all the time while
cycling anyway…
Fabian: Once we hit the African roads, we became close friends
though.
Halfway there: crossing the equator in Uganda.
Didn’t you dare to travel around on your own?
Fabian: Days can be endlessly long when you are on your own.
That hit me when I cycled 3,500 kilometres from Aachen to Istanbul.
I cycled 100 kilometres through the Pannonian steppe, pitched
my tent, cooked something – and still, it was only 6 pm. I
didn’t know what to do with the rest of the evening. Sometimes, I
packed up again and kept on cycling until my joints hurt. When
hardly any traffic. The question is: Is the fastest way really the more exhausting than I had thought, and at the same time we had
you travel with somebody you are less lonely – and lots of things
best one? We mostly cycled on dirt roads and pathways, far off the bad food. Anyway, I got sick and needed a break. So we decided to
are just easier. For example, one person can watch the bikes while
main roads. Those aren’t the perfect roads when a spoke breaks. travel solo for a while.
the other person buys food.
However, those are the best ways to get in contact with locals. Tim: It was a good decision for both of us, after a while you natu-
Tim: I also wanted to share my experiences. You can’t grasp it all
rally get on each other’s wick. At the beginning, I enjoyed travel-
on your own, be it the big things or the many little impressions.
How heavy is the bicycle of a self-sufficient cyclist?
ling alone. After four days I couldn’t handle it though. Burundi is
Afterwards, you always sum it up in anecdotes and basic bits of
Fabian: Each of us moved 45 kilograms, including bicycle, water hilly and extremely densely populated. I crawled up the hills, peo-
information anyway. Most of the people are impressed when they
and food.
ple were everywhere, they starred and shouted at me. I felt like an
hear we cycled 12,000 kilometres. Funny enough, it’s not a big
animal in the zoo and couldn’t escape at all. I had reached my
deal while doing it. You just start cycling and then you keep on
Was there any equipment you didn’t bring but wished you had brought? physical limits and was just exhausted.
going. It’s like a river.
Fabian: A chain whip would have been useful to take off the chain
ring and change broken spokes, as well as a chain tool. I could Can you avoid situations like that when travelling together?
Could everybody cycle through Africa?
have left my big sleeping bag at home. The nights in the desert Tim: Not necessarily. You can either vent your anger at each other
Tim: Probably every normal person can do it – if he or she really
weren’t as cold as expected.
or you can grin and bear it together, whatever you feel like. Of
wants to do it.
Tim: You don’t even need a tent when you don’t mind bugs crawling course there are limits: There are moments when you feel helpless
over you. The weather won’t be a problem; it’s rather the mosquitoes. even if you are travelling with a partner. Sometimes, children were
Are the roads made for bicycles?
very aggressive towards us. They threw stones and put sticks bet-
Tim: You can cycle all the way from Cape Town to Cairo on paved
Was there a crisis?
ween our spokes. We didn’t know what we did wrong. We just tried
road, except for one stretch between Kenya and Ethiopia. There is Fabian: I was pretty down in Zambia. Getting almost arrested was to say hi in Amharic.
>

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Table football on the side of the road. The bet: two cokes.
»We have already collected 9,000 euro,
and will continue with it until we reach the
12,000 kilometres in euros.«
Do you know now why children threw stones at you?
Tim: We talked about it in a restaurant in the area. They just asked
why we didn’t throw stones back at them! I guess that’s life. The
shop owners throw stones at the youths to scare them away from
their shop entrances, the youths throw stones at their younger siblings,
and they in turn throw stones at cows and white cyclists. We
haven’t found an answer yet. Some things probably have to stay a
secret when you’re travelling through a foreign country.
Why did you decided to collect donations for Doctors Without
Borders?
Fabian: It was our plan from the very beginning to make our trip
public through different types of media, like on our blog or in a
film. We wanted to show a different picture of Africa to the people
who followed our journey from home – and in turn, we wanted to
redirect the attention we got. We wanted Africa to profit from it.
One euro per kilometre is the goal.
Tim: On the road we simply couldn’t help everybody, so we chose
Doctors Without Borders. They know where aid is most needed.
We have already got 9,000 euros, and will continue until we reach
the 12,000 kilometres in euros.
Earlier you said that you held onto a truck while going uphill. Isn’t
that cheating?
Fabian: We didn’t do everything by the rulebook. We took the ferry
once, too. We did have ambitions though: for example Tim wanted
to cycle up the Blue Nile Gorge. I happened to catch the back of a
truck and was on top two hours earlier to play table football with
the kids. We gambled with two cokes – they won.
You’re always talking about coke. Was it your very own currency?
Fabian: Exactly. When we arrived in a new state we always bought
a coke first which is actually cheaper than water. You get an idea
about how much things like bananas or a night in a guesthouse >
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Slowing down in Cairo: the 4,500 year old pyramids are in a better shape than the seven month old saddle.
will cost. It works most of the time. Once we accidentally bought a
whole bunch of bananas. We put them on the back of the bike and
munched bananas in the morning, at lunch time, in the evening…
Did Globetrotter Ausrüstung sponsor your adventure? You carried
the logo around with you on Fabian’s panniers.
Fabian: No, I bought them as a normal customer because of the
quality and the great value for money. However, when we came
back we applied to be »Globetrotter of the Year« and we actually
won 2,500 euros. If we got the prize because of my panniers, the
value for money is of course even better…
Now you’re back home. Are you still dreaming of Africa?
Tim: All the time. I want to write a book about our journey, but it’s
going a bit slow. I have got enough on my plate with my apprenticeship.
We did realise our photo exhibition »Begegnungen mit Afrika«
(Encounters in Africa) though; it’s a 90-minute presentation we
show upon request. (editor’s note: get contact via africabybike.de)
Fabian: I’m just cutting a little road movie. It is a bit tricky because
to do this I need to imagine things from an audience‘s perspective.
You can get a bit carried away when you make a film about
your own experiences.
Tim: We will never forget our African adventure, I’m sure
about that. There is a sentence by Hemingway which captures
it exactly: »I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up
and I was not happy.«
<
More about the
»Globetrotter of the Year«
Fabian Nawrath, born 1989 in
Aachen, did not only cycle far off to
Istanbul or Africa, but is also cycling
every day to FH Aachen to study
design.
Tim Starck, born 1991 in Tübingen, is
doing an apprenticeship as a physiotherapist.
Later on, he wants to study
medicine and dreams about returning
to Ethiopia as a doctor.
You can dig into the whole adventure on africabybike.de. There is also more
information about Doctors Without Borders, their photo exhibition and presentation,
as well as their plans about the book and the movie.
Want to be the next Globetrotter of the Year? globetrotter.de/gdj.
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The European Outdoor Film Tour (E.O.F.T.) screens the most exciting sports- and adventure-films of the year.
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Chris Bray looks tired and exhausted when
he turns towards the camera. »Right now
what I’d like to do is throw up in a little
bowl and go to sleep.« It is not the morning
after a night-out, it is only the first
evening of their Victoria Island Expedition.
»We are slowly starting to realise what
we got ourselves into«, his expedition
partner Clark Carter groans and moves
slowly towards the tent. But wait, is it a
tent on wheels?
On Kevlar wheels over rough and smooth
The PAC (=Paddleable Amphibious Cart)
rolls forward on four oversized truck wheels
covered in gold. »It’s Kevlar«, explains Chris,
»the sort of stuff you make bullet-proof vests
out of.« It helps them to get over rocks,
through ice and deep mud. It is no surprise it
can swim too. A brilliant construction, especially
made for crossing an island north of
the Arctic Circle. Apart from a handful of
people, there are only ice bears, musk oxen
and arctic wolves up there. 1,000 kilome-
tres over rough and smooth lay ahead of
them. Who might give up first? The sun
drenched Australians or the PAC…
Approaching a slackline world champion
The Australian tinkerers are not the only
ones in the film program realising wild
ideas. Slackliner Andy Lewis offers similar
twists and tricks. He turned down an offer
by Madonna (!) to accompany her as a
show act on her world tour: »That’s not my
thing.« He does not need the big stage for
his tricks. The current world champion preferably
backflips along the slackline and
sometimes does not even bother to use the
safety leash or wear any clothes whatever
when on the highline. The E.O.F.T. will
screen his portrait »Sketchy Andy«.
Another crazy thing in the program: »The
Shapeshifter«. Kayaker Ben Marr paddles
with fire, putting the game with the elements
into a new light. Mystical whitewater
action, gripping sound: it is definitely the
visual highlight of the E.O.F.T. 12/13. <
Starting on
October 11th.
The E.O.F.T. will travel around
Europe from 11 October
carrying a two hour film
program in their backpacks.
Find out more about the film
program, tickets and the
schedule on eoft.eu.
Special ticket/DVD-package
offer for GlobetrotterCard Customers for 25 euros
instead of 31 euros. Further information on
globetrotter.de/kundenkarte.
Flare boat: Ben Marr decided to stick a flare on his kayak for his E.O.F.T. film clip.
Two Australians decided to swap sun and surfboard for ice and an ice truck.
Photos: E.O.F.T.

Photo: Bernd Großer
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Alice in Outdoor Wonderland
Experience outdoor fun from the
inside at Cologne’s GlobeWelt.
Alice Schwarzer and Andreas
Kieling are invited too.
It is time for another GlobeWelt: from the
2nd till the 4th of November, the travel
and outdoor festival will take place for the
third time in the Globetrotter store in
Cologne (Olivandenhof, Richmodstraße
10). A numerous range of retailers will introduce
their latest products and tell you
all the secrets on the festival’s theme »Travel
light and comfortable«. Tips and workshops
from First Aid to Slackline will help
you to jump straight into the next adven-
New Climbing Forest in Dresden
ture. If you feel brave enough, you can swing
through the rotunda of Europe’s biggest
outdoor store on a giant vine like Tarzan.
If you are curious to know more rather than
ready to swing around, visit the presentations
by Andreas Kieling (»Adventurous
Alaska«, 4 November) and by Alice Schwarzer
(»Travel in Burma«, 2 November). The
journalist has travelled around the Asian
country six times and will present her book
she produced together with photographer
Bettina Flitner (Globetrotter order number
21.41.70., 34.95 euros). The presentations
will take place at the Rautenstrauch Joest
Museum, less than two minutes away from
the store. Tickets for the evening program are
bookable for 10 euros each. Anything else?
Click on globewelt.info.
<
It is tough to be a child in Saxon Switzerland these days. They have to
make decisions. Should they conquer the Königstein Fortress? Or should
they first scramble around the new climbing forest?
The hamster wheel is one of the 68 climbing elements.
Schwarzer and Flitner in Burma.
The new climbing forest, supported by
Globetrotter Ausrüstung, is at an excellent
location: it is next to the visitor parking
area of the famous Königstein Fortress,
about 20 kilometres away from Dresden.
68 climbing elements are stretched between
the trees in different difficulty levels,
divided into seven courses. Children from
age five can climb around with their parents,
children from age eight can go and
explore the area on their own. The new belay
system Smart Belay by Edelrid offers
the best security. It prevents the risk of falling
as climbers cannot accidentally unclip
two carabiners at the same time.
14 apprentices from the Globetrotter
store in Dresden already tested and enjoyed
the Climbing Forest. They explored the
forest together with apprentices from the
Health Insurance Company Barmer GEK.
They did not only learn about the new belay
system, but exchanged some tips
about how to cook healthy food on the
camping cooker as well.
Visitors can spend a day in the whole of the
Climbing Forest (2.5 hours, children 14/
adults 18 euros) or in parts of it (4 courses,
1,5 hours, 10/14 euros). Every
Globetrotter Card Customer will get 10 percent
off the entry fee.
Further information: kletterwald-koenigstein.
de, phone: +49 3 50 22/918 28 28. <
Photo: Bettina Flitner
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die Natur zu genießen. Eine unserer letzten
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stand zu halten.
Mit bewährten Lösungen ist dieser
Rucksack gleichermaßen geeignet für
den allgemeinen Einsatz im Freien, für
Wanderungen und Abenteuerreisen.
Der Helags Helags hat seinen Namen von der der
gleichnamigen schwedischen BergBergkette kette - einer der wenigen Plätze, Plätze, wo
man noch immer immer einen üchtigen
Blick Blick von von dem dem Polarfuchs erhaschen
kann. Für jeden verkauften Rucksack
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Outdoor for Beginners
No excuse and no reason to stay
inside any more. Outdoor.de,
Globetrotter’s new online portal, is
opening their doors to the outside.
Sometimes you do not know where to start.
Outdoor.de will introduce a new topic each
week, so everybody can start from scratch
and get straight into the outdoor fun.
Whether it be hiking or trekking, or be it
less sweaty outdoor activities like BBQ and
open air music festivals: It is all about
being outside. Outdoor in four categories:
• The right equipment from the Globetrotter
range, shown with a 360 degree view. When
you click on it, you can order the product
directly from Globetrotter’s online shop.
• Articles and film clips from 4-Seasons
(about 850 articles), as well as additional advice
by the Globetrotter channel 4-Seasons.tv.
• Events dealing with the current topic like
the 24-Hour Hike.
• Chosen dream destinations and locations,
including stories from the travel writing
portal reiseberichte.com
»Many outdoor products look really exciting
and stylish these days – we want to
show the range and possibilities to begin-
Borneo 2 MFS
Everything is top: Equipment, advice, events and locations.
ners with inviting pictures«, enthuses Thomas
Lipke, Managing Partner of Globetrotter,
the new online portal outdoor.de at
a press conference. However, he kept secret
the price of the catchy internet
address. They hope to address a new audience
with the »bite-size presentation«,
explains Lipke. Nice side effect: because
the design is so neat, it can be easily navigated
on smart phones or tablets. <
bequem & robust
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❚ Hohe Formstabilität
❚ Handaufgezogener Gummigürtel
❚ Air-Active®-Technologie
❚ Meindl Multigriff® von Vibram®
www.meindl.de
»I find a spare bed every night«
Globetrotter colleague Stephan
Meurisch (31) from Munich talks
about his walk to Tibet without a
cent in his pocket.
Stephan, you have already been on the
road for 115 days. Now you are in Romania.
Where did you stay last night?
Yesterday I met a family pushing a pram in
Carta. I asked them if they knew anybody
who would put me up for a night. They
were on their way to a birthday party.
»Come with us«, they said. After the party,
I pitched my tent in the garden. That was
an exception though. Usually I stay at
churches, guesthouses or on couches in
the living room – always for free. It works
similar with food.
Do you usually have to explain why you are
travelling without any money? You also raised
donations for the children’s aid project
Shelter 108, supported by your employer
A PART OF PEOPLE’S
ADVENTURES SINCE 1892
within the framework of »Globetrotter engagieren
sich«.
I just tell them my story that I am on my
way from Munich to Tibet. Then I ask if I
could stay overnight. I only got rejected
twice. Once in Austria because they did not
have any space, the other time they immediately
introduced me to somebody else.
Does is get easier the further East you go?
Germany and Austria were easier because
of the language. However, in Romania people
approach me much quicker. They stop
and ask if I am hungry or if I want to go
with them. The other day, a man gave me a
bottle of wine and left.
Have you had any bad experiences yet?
When I was in Transylvania, a man invited
me to his place. When we arrived it
was a shock: such a mess! Then he asked
for my passport. We basically communicated
using hands and feet, the mood
was on the edge, I left quickly. That
night, I met a pastor who let me sleep in
front of his church.
<
The full-length interview on 4-Seasons.de/longtrailtotibet.
Stephan’s travel blog and further information on Shelter 108 e.V. on longtrailtotibet.com.
ANY
Welcoming families, dinner for free –
Stephan feels fine in Romania.
ADVENTURE.
WEATHER.
FUEL.
Der neue PRIMUS OmniLite TM ist unser neuer Leichtgewichts-
Expeditionskocher – und der technisch am weitesten entwickelte
Kocher, den wir seit unserer Firmengründung 1892 jemals entwickelt
haben. Seine Technologie
stammt vom vielfach ausgezeichneten
OmniFuel TM .
Aber der OmniLite TM ist kleiner,
wiegt weniger und verbraucht weniger
Sprit. Ideal für beinahe jedes
Abenteuer, bei jedem Wetter und
mit nahezu jedem Brennstoff.
Photos: Stephan Meurisch
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Photography Competition #11:
»Summer Season«
There is no other season that gives you such a feeling of elation like summer time. Our photo competition was
all about the activities and impressions from the season of long holidays and high pressure extending from the
Azores. Congratulation to the winners.
1.
Place Waiting for the summer day to start on the Padjelantaleden/Sweden. Photo: Jens Beuttenmüller
»A mobile home cannot look more inviting. Although
nature not quite gets enough consideration here, the
equipment fits the scene perfectly well. It is not only
Next photo competition:
»Indian Summer«
the colours that catch the eye, although orange is our
favourite, energising colour.«
Martin Haag, online editor Globetrotter Ausrüstung
The summer is slowing down, Indian summer is waiting – we are
looking for the best colours from here to North America.
Submission deadline is 30 September 2012.
More information: 4-Seasons.de/foto.
2.
Place
Hungry seagulls accompany the trip
from Den Helder to Texel.
Photo: Tibor Magaslaki
3.
Place
»Very often, it is just about another perspective.
Good photos usually show simple motives,
but from a different perspective.
Everybody knows persistent seagulls. In this
picture, the photographer turned the tables
and pestered the birds. Black and white lends
a more dramatic touch.«
Stephan Glocker,
Editor in Chief 4-Seasons
On top of the mountain at high
season, on the way to Garmisch –
cycling around the Alpspitze.
Photo: Neal Cheeseman
»Kudos! I am impressed by both the mountain
biker, who dares to go down the Alpspitze, as
well as by the photographer. He did everything
right in this picture: image structure, timing,
lighting, the atmosphere of the weather. A
summer kick on top of the mountain.«
Ingo Wilhelm, editor 4-Seasons
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Shopping-Marathon
The selection of the products for the Globetrotter summer 2013 range is
already running at full speed. 4-Seasons was the fly on the wall at the
»In-house trade fair«, truly a shopping marathon.
Stefan Kluge, the only man in the Globetrotter
clothes shopping team, looks suspicious
at a lace-trimmed women’s tanga slip.
The delicate something is part of ExOfficio’s
collection. Of course it is made of outdoor
functional material. Could it fit into the Globetrotter
range?
»Awesome«, shouts Steve Talacki,
ExOfficio’s sales boss who has travelled to
Hamburg just for the shopping marathon.
Will the tanga be
in the Globetrotter
guide 2013?
He gets the next line of clothes from the
rack and presents more examples with a
big smile.
It has been like this for days and in many
rooms at the same time: It is the time of the
year for the in-house trade fair in the Globetrotter
headquarters in Hamburg. There
would not have been enough time for such
an extensive collection at the trade fair
»OutDoor«, so traders bring their latest collections
to Hamburg for inspection.
»It reminds me of teleshopping«, sales boss
Anny Cardinahl laughs. »But we get straight
down to the nitty-gritty. We discuss cuts,
material, colours, prices, the whole program,
and for hours.«
There is a shopping team for each product
range from backpacks to canoes made up
of Globetrotter employees, editors of the
Globetrotter guide and purchasers. The
in-house trade fair is one of the most
important dates in the calendar and
one of the most exhausting events.
»Your head starts spinning when
Above: The shoe team is discussing La Sportiva’s latest shoes.
Left: Next – the whole Icebreaker collection.
you look at clothes for two
weeks in a row«, says Anny.
Next door, Lowe Alpine tries to
sell their backpacks and hip bags.
In another room, the shoe team
pores over La Sportiva’s collection.
There are almost one
hundred models one after another.
»It’s not the worst«, shoe
purchaser Olaf Friedrich says.
»When big traders like Meindl
come to us with their whole range,
it quickly looks like a shoe tsunami
has gushed through the store.«
The traders provide special work
books that introduce each product
in every available colour,
so nobody loses orientation. A
purchaser take notes – the
springboard for many more discussions
until the Globetrotter
range for 2013 is ready.
Steve from ExOfficio is exhausted.
The next packed clothes
racks are already in front of the
door, the whole Merino
Icebreak er collection. Will they
have tanga slips too? (SG)
The work book to note down first impressions for discussions later.
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»Meindl Identity«: Organic Leather
Includes Guarantee of Origin
It is common to know which country your food is from. So why is it not the same with the natural product
leather? The »Identity« models of the Bavarian shoemaker Meindl should ensure appropriate animal welfare
– thanks to organic leather.
Organic products guarantee high quality and
the best possible animal welfare. Furthermore,
they are often produced locally and
conserve resources. This is the philosophy
of the local farmers in Bavarian Chiemgau
and the area around Salzburg too. They
leave their cows on rich green pastures – un-
til the company Alpenrind evaluates them in
the border area of Germany and Austria only
a short distance to the factory.
The German tannery Heinen will take the
skins. They have developed a carbon-neutral
and sustainable technique for this.
Dur ing tannery, each piece of leather gets
its own identification number so it can be
allocated later on to its original place of
origin. Credibility through tracking is the
most important value of the project »Identity«
for Lukas Meindl, who leads the traditional
company with his brother Lars. »The
leather will only get into production if the
quality is perfect and the origin is completely
documented.«
It takes 200 working steps at Meindl’s own
The »Meindl Identity« cows grow up on Bavarian and Austrian organic farms.
factories in Kirchanschöring and Slovenia to
make a proper shoe. One cow skin makes
eight to ten pair of shoes. In the end, the
identity number of an eco cow gets punched
into the inside of the shoe’s upper and written
down in the shoe pass that comes with every
shoe. To track back the shoe’s history on a
map as far down the line as to the town near
the farm, the buyer can enter the five-digit
code online on identity-leder.de. The name of
the farm and the cow is not public because of
legal reasons. Meindl knows it though.
There are already four shoe types featuring
the identity system, for example the casual
shoes Linosa and Tessin (for women and
men). The Identity-family will grow next
winter with the elegant boot Schladming.
Above: the model Linosa Identity.
Below: Handcraft in the tannery.
The eco-friendly material is about 25%
more expensive, so the identity models are
around 15 percent more expensive than
their counterpart made of conventional
leather. »There is a lot of effort behind
Identity«, explains Lukas Meindl. However,
sustainability, local products and gapless
transparency is very important to him. So,
now you know, Meindl is the first ever shoe
company offering proof of origin. <
Photos: Archiv Meindl
Finally: There’s More Than Pictures
Always wondered about the stories
behind the pictures? 4-Seasons is
now also available in English!
From now on, you will have three choices
to read Globetrotter’s customer magazine
in the world language:
• Click on 4-Seasons.de to read the
articles in English as HTML.
• Download the complete magazine as
PDF from the website.
• Get the English version of 4-Seasons
from anywhere you are with the iPad-
App from Globetrotter.
Enjoy the whole story and the pictures:
4-Seasons.de/english.
<
Dr. TOmaS JElinEk: HEalTH TipS FOr GlObETrOTTEr
The nasty souvenir:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is an infectious disease of the liver and a type of
jaundice. The incidence of the virus is high in warmer regions
like Africa, Central and South America, east and southeast
Asia as well as India. It mainly spreads via contaminated food
or water. The time between infection and the appearance of the
symptoms is between two and six weeks. Children usually do
not have any problems with Hepatitis A. When adults are infected,
typical symptoms are initially a lack of appetite, nausea,
vomiting and pain in the right upper abdomen. After a few
days, the skin will turn yellow and the urine will become dark.
There will not be any permanent damage. To prevent an infection
with the Hepatitis A virus, it is necessary to keep high hygiene
standards, especially when it comes to food. Best is
freshly cooked food because the virus is killed when heated to
over 70 degrees centigrade. Be careful with food from a buffet
when it has been outside for a while, and with salads and fruits
that you have not peeled yourself. You do not have to worry
about drinks out of sealed bottles. Avoid ice cubes or tap water.
The disease can be best prevented by vaccination: two injections
between six and eighteen months will give you protection
for 25 to 30 years.
<
Dr. Jelinek leads berlin’s centre for travel and tropical medicine (bctropen.de).
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On your Sled, Ready, Steady Go!
You are dreaming about a dog
sled adventure in Scandinavia?
Here you are!
Polar 2013: One 4-Seasons reader taking
part.
At the Fjällräven Polar in April 2013, twenty
dog sleds will again slide from Signaldalen
in Norway to Swedish Lapland – 330
kilometres in five days. Each participant
will steer their own sled, take care of the
animals and experience a late-winter outdoor
dream. Part of the adventure is camping
in the snow, sitting around a warm
camp fire and probably spending nights
under the Northern Lights.
4-Seasons took part in the last Fjällräven
Polar last spring and will tell you the whole
story in the next issue which is due at the
beginning of November. You will also get to
know how you could get into this adventure.
4-Seasons has one place for Fjällräven
Polar 2013 to give away exclusively to
one of our readers.
You can take part from mid November. App-
ly online and find all the information on
their website: fjallraven.de.
Kaltenbrunner live
The mountaineer gives a
presentation in Munich.
Passionate about eight-thousanders:
Gerline Kaltenbrunner.
On 18 September (8 pm), Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
and her partner Ralf Dujmovits will
talk about their expeditions to K2 & Co. in a
one and a half hour multimedia show in
Munich‘s CinemaxX. Pre-book »Leidenschaft
8000 – Tiefe überall« at Globetrotter
Munich (Isartorplatz 8). 18 euros, 15 euros
< for GlobetrotterCard holders.
<
Photo: Archiv Kaltenbrunner
36 G
Photo: Michael Hancock
Trekking with a Double Benefit
Volunteer guides help children in Guatemala.
VOGEL FLIEGT,
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Bequemes und funktionelles Schuhwerk, das
festen und soliden Halt für schwere Treks oder
mehrtägige Wanderungen mit viel Gepäck
bietet. Teilweise bedingt steigeisenfest.
Hiking in Guatemala can be good
for you and street children.
Globetrotter supports the aid
project with equipment.
Walking across Guatemala’s fascinating
volcanoes, crossing tropical forests and
lively valleys: The organisation Quetzaltrekkers
has been offering international hiking
tours since 1995. The guides are from all
over the world, too, working voluntarily. The
proceeds of the guided tours are for the
children. The Edelac association, financed
through Quetzaltrekkers, runs a school in
the city Quetzaltenango, offering a school
education to around 200 children from
poor backgrounds. Many of the school-leav-
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ers who come from a broken home or have
lived on the streets now found a job as a
carpenter or teacher and have started their
own family. Part of the aid project is not
only the school but also a house (El Hogar)
where children and young people are looked
after and receive advice from drug rehabilitation
to family planning. Some street
children stay at El Hagor for a longer time.
Participants of the trekking tour can rent
their gear on the spot. Here, Globetrotter
gets into the game: »It is an exciting project
and we are happy to provide the
equipment«, explains Irish Tews, responsible
for Globetrotter’s sponsoring.
Brand-new sleeping bags, backpacks,
crockery and cutlery are on their way to
the Quetzaltrekkers.
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more information about the tour and the aid project: quetzaltrekkers.com.
Watch the film clip on whywehike.actualitymedia.org/.

38 News News 39
InVolVeD
This is Where Your
Meru Shirt is Growing!
Globetrotter’s own brand focuses on organic cotton. High quality,
affordable, ecofriendly resources, fair production – it has never been
easier to take responsibility.
Conventional farming of cotton leads
to massive environmental problems
in extensive areas of the world.
Fields have to be irrigated (approximately
the volume of ten baths full of water for the
fibre of just one shirt), a fact which caused
Good for human and environment: the resource for Meru tops.
the drying up of the Aral Sea in Asia. Onecrop
agriculture requires lots of pesticides
which impair pickers‘ health. Many workers
do not earn enough for a living. And
child labour is no exception on cotton
farms and in production plants.
Not with Meru. The brand is operated by
the Ruofamily, a cooperation of seven leading
sports retailers from four different
countries. Globetrotter’s textile experts
from Hamburg are in charge of the development.
Since 2011, Globetrotter offers
two Meru T-Shirts and a hoodie tailored
with organic cotton for men and women in
several colours.
Meru found a strong purchasing and manufacturing
partner for the tops, namely
the Swiss Company Remei AG. They have
been producing fibres, yarns and clothing
out of organic cotton for 20 years under the
name of bioRe. Besides Meru, brands like
Mammut and Elkline are amongst the
purchasers. Globetrotter also has bioRe
products in their range.
8,300 organic farms in India and Tanzania
bioRe purchases raw materials from 8,300
small farmers in India and Tanzania. They
profit from the cotton farming in several
ways: economically, because the farmers
do not need a credit to buy the chemicals;
healthwise, because the farmers do not
poison themselves by using chemicals and
at the same time gain additional food by
practicing crop rotation; agriculturally, because
organic farming protects the fertility
of the ground. At the same time, the stan-
dard of bioRe cotton guarantees the farmers
social advantages such as a 15 percent
price bonus and an association for
farmers with member participation.
The farming is controlled by independent
inspections according to organic regulations
of the European Union. Remei AG
Photos: Remei AG
The plantation is in line with the organic
farming regulations of the European
Union.
also compensates for its CO 2 footprint in
India and Tanzania: It is co-financing
3,150 organic gas cooking facilities and
4,200 smoke-free kitchen stoves, thus enhancing
air quality and protecting forests.
Moreover, each cooking facility saves enough
CO 2 annually to produce and transport
500 T-Shirts.
Globetrotter on site
There are strict rules governing processing
such as no child labour, safety at the working
place and appropriate renumeration.
An independent testing institute monitors
compliance. So, Remei gets most of their
production line certified according to
SA8000, an international standard to improve
working conditions. In addition, the
bioRe foundation runs social projects in
India and Tanzania which to date boast 20
town schools and a mobile medical practice.
In November 2010, Globetrotter
colleague Christina Holst from the textile
department inspected bioRe projects in India.
»I was impressed how much they put
their heart into those projects«, says the
Meru product developer. It is a fight
against genetically modified cotton: »It
brings in a higher income in the short run«,
explains Christina Holst. »However, many
farmers run into debts because of the ex-
InVolVeD
Available at Globetrotter: Meru’s Tawa
Hooded Jacket made of bioRe cotton.
pensive, annual, genetically modified
seeds and the artificial fertilizer. In the
long run, organic cotton is the better
choice for farmers.«
Meru devolepers know what they are doing
when they entrust the production of
the tops to Remei AG. From now on, customers
can also track back their clothes
on the website (remei.ch/produkte-traceability/),
right up to the farming area.
Globe trotter salespeople lead by example:
The orange and black T-Shirts are
made of bioRe cotton.
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Vital momentum
Six new electric bicycles help
Globetrotter employees to get from
A to B – giving momentum to CO ²
reduction.
It is exactly 4.1 kilometres from »BKS«
to »NHB«, Globetrotter employees say,
meaning the distance between the headquarter
at Hamburg’s Bargkoppelstieg
and the logistics centre at Neue Höltigbaum.
This road and many others can
Bernd Repenning (right) from E-Collection
handed the bikes over to Fabian
Nednza.
now be cycled with six E-Bikes instead of
travelling in cars. In June, Globetrotter
put the electric bicycles made by Hamburg-based
E-Collection into service.
They are pedelecs, so Globis still have to
pedal but with the help of a 250-watt
motor acting pretty much like a permanent
tail wind.
Fabian Nedza is Globetrotter Representative
for »Corporate Social Responsibility«
and explains: »After introducing a CO rule ²
for company cars two years ago, as well as
the use of the electric Mercedes Vito for
our internal transport of products since
2011, with the E-Bikes we have taken
another step towards the reduction of CO - ²
emissions caused by mobility.«
The E-Bikes speed along at 25 km/h over a
distance of up to 80 kilometres. Enough to
go to appointments in the city, such as at
»JFS« - or how do they call the Jungfernsteig
at Globetrotter?
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Photo: Globetrotter Ausrüstung

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Projects Projects 41
Scottish
Cliff-Climbing
They are called Old Man of Stoer and Old Man of Hoy, and stand
off Scotland’s ragged coast, lonely and remote like widowers
turned into stone. Four German climbers – not quite the youngest
vintage either – went off to the sea stacks for a stormy adventure.
Photos: Ralf Gantzhorn | Text: Ingo Wilhelm

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Projects 43
When building a bridge to the
other side you use a static robe.
Effort equals happiness, especially
when you climb above the water.
Material
battle with
mobile
security
devices like
climbing nuts
(in the
foreground).
How do you get on top of that thing?
»How to climb a sea stack« in 6 steps:
1. Climber A swims to
sea stack with rope.
3. Lead climbing to
the top.
5. Climb back along the
rope bridge.
2. Climber B transfers
via the rope bridge.
4. Abseil without swinging
too far off the cliff.
6. Pull rope back. One
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»Being on the very top
of a tiny cliff nose is just
unbelievable.«
The first step on the cliff is always the most uncomfortable one.
It wasn’t always good weather. Very seldom, actually.
The Old Man of Hoy has
an overhang up his sleeve.

46 Projects
Above the roaring sea, climbers have to be able to understand each other without words.
The water is 10 degrees
cold and fulmars shit
on your helmet.
Excellent, that's where we wanted to be!
Sometimes, Ralf Gantzhorn shakes his head in disbelief
when he talks about his project. »It is a bit crazy how much
effort we put into such a short time of climbing«, the 48year
old from Hamburg thinks out loud. »At the beginning, we had
to swim through water which was 10 degrees cold. Our security
system on the cliff was nerve-wrecking. Not to forget about the
brooding fulmar, no fair players at all: They leave badly smelling
secretion behind as soon as you come too close…« However, he
will never forget about the two, three and sometimes five rope
lengths: »Being on top of the tiny rock projections, only water below
us, the waves dashing around us, the roaring of the sea, the
screams of the birds – it was just an unbelievable scene.«
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There is just enough space on top of the Old Man of Hoy to celebrate.
buddies started in May 2011. Stacks refers to the layers of sandtone
making up the pillars of up to 150 metres in height. »The
weather in Scotland usually gets to be the best in May«, explains
Ralf, who lost his heart to the Highlands when studying geology in
Aberdeen. »However, this was not to be the case for us. It was the
worst weather I had ever experienced over there. Stable bad weather,
one could say. Only one day without rain in three and a half
weeks.« So the German Bravehearts only climbed three of the
planned five sea stacks. Those were a league of their own though.
»Go steeper« – the remedy for stress with birds.
Take the 60 meter high Old Man of Stoer in the very far northwest
of Scotland’s mainland. Even when the tide is in, the water
splashes around the cliff. So, that is how you start: clothes off, put
them into a waterproof bag, swim to the foot of the old man while
holding on to the end of the rope. Then you have to fight through a
carpet of seaweed on the way to the cliff island, put your clothes
back on and build a rope bridge so the other climbers can move
hand over hand along it. Next get onto the sandstone which is
nice ly rough due to the salty air and climb up mostly lower seventh-grade
routes (UIAA). You need to secure everything with
climbing nuts and other mobile devices as bolts are frowned upon.
And look for mostly steep routes because if there is no cliff balcony
there are no bird nests. Up and up, soon you are on top! At last
you can dangle your legs over the North Atlantic and be happy. On
the way down, abseil across the overhang cliff while dangling
above the foaming sea like a little flag in the wind.
Sometimes the surge of waves makes it impossible to approach
the sea stack. »We waited for three days on the steep coast of the
Orkney Islands but we could only dream about the sea stack in
front of us«, says Ralf. »We would have had to swim 60 metres but
Ralf Gantzhorn (right) and his climbing buddies.
the wave breakers would have turned us into crab food.« It is not
the first time he has approached such a climbing adventure with a
black humour. During the 1990s, the well-known alpine photographer
managed some first ascents on the Outer Hebrides, approaching
them from a sailing boat. He named them after songs
by Helge Schneider like »Katzenklo« and »Orang Utan Klaus«.
They are still called this way in climbing guides of today.
He definitely wants to go back for the two cliff towers he missed
this time. »Sea stacks have such a fantastic playful character«, he
muses. »When you are a climber and you haven’t climbed a sea
stack yet, you have missed out on the very magical yet perhaps at
the same time absurd side of this kind of sport.«
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From the Sea Stack to the Book
Sea stacks play an outstanding role
in the new large­format book by Ralf
Gantzhorn and journalist Jan Bertram.
Title: »Schottland – Outdoor­Erlebnis
am Rande Europas«. It is all about
cliff climbing and trekking through the
Highlands, about pleasurable hikes
around the lochs as well as winter
adventures on Ben Nevis. It includes
beautiful pictures, detailed descriptions
and maps. Bergverlag Rother,
227 pages, 49.90 €, Globetrotter order
number 18.46.63. Additionally, the
fourth edition of »Rother­Wanderführer
Schottland« by Ralf Ganzhorn just
came out, incl. 50 tours. 160 pages,
14.90 €, incl. GPS­Tracks, Globetrotter
order number 15.00.82. Both books
available in German.

50 Travel Tip
Itchy feet in Palatinate Forest
The Palatinate forest trail runs right across the Palatinate Forest, Germany’s
biggest forest area. Don’t worry if you miss the forest for the trees: Fantastic
sandstone scenery and cliff castles will show you the right way.
Impressive from
far and wide…
… as well as very close: the
clump of castles Altdahn-
Grafendahn-Tanstein.
In-depth access to new worlds
along the forest path.
Photos: Diana Haas
If you happen to see Elwetritsche, the legendary animal, you
know you got lost in the magic of the Palatinate Forest«, the
warden of our guesthouse in Kaiserslautern had mumbled
when he said good bye. He did not want to tell us more. So we
started our way on the Palatinate forest path with a secret in the
bag. At the beginning it was rather dark, at least that’s what the
path had in store: Finsterbrunnertal, meaning: dark valley of
wells. The valley marked the end of the first stage. We keep on
walking and realise quickly that the Palatinate Forest is not dark
at all. Instead, it is flooded with sunlight, inspiring to the
wanderer’s heart, possibly a bit enchanted. The path through the
Karlstal gorge is similar, accompanied by the Moosalbe, a constant
gabbling river. Gradually we get a feeling of the magic the
warden of our guesthouse was talking about. The path passes
more and more twisted and crazy rock formations like the Seelenfelsen
(soul rock) just after Heltersberg. It is worn out by water
and wind, riddled with holes, notches and cuts. Saufelsen,
Vorderer and Hinterer Rappenkopf are the next odd monolithes
in the forest.
Slowly the forest rises up: the biggest rocks are real reefs, far above
the leafy canopy. During the Middle Ages, there used to be
many castles on top and in them. Apparently they cut around 500
castles out of the soft red sandstone. Around 80 of them have
survived till today, smoothed by wars and the ravages of time. One
of the most impressive ruins is Gräfenstein near Merzalben. The
castle is said to have been built in the 12th century and has the
only heptagonal donjon in Germany. You feel drawn to the donjon,
your steps higher and higher in the spell of the centuries. Up at
the top, the view above the Palatinate Forest from the top of the
tower is truly magic. The hilly face of the uplands stretches into
the distance, looking as if it was covered with plush.
And then, the sandstone rocks come alive.
The Dahner Felsenland is not only steeped in legends; walking
along the forest path for a few days feels indeed a bit enchanted, if
not spooky. Especially in the morning and in the evening when the
world is caught in the twilight and the red sandstone rocks come
alive. A face seems to appear in the shade, and a troll is definitely
hiding over there. Scenes straight out of fantasy novels seem to be
so close – as if somebody has looted Utah and brought new sandstone
sculptures over here. There are only more trees around here.
The Jungfernsprung is indeed a sandstone wall with a legend. It is
set 70 meters higher than the town of Dahn.
In the evening, we have a Schnaps with Rainer who lives in Dahn,
whom we had a drink with earlier in our guesthouse. He tells us
Dansenberg
how the rock got its name. There was a virgin who escaped a shady
robber­knight and jumped down the wall. Instead of getting smasHermershed
to pieces, she landed very gently, God’s protective bergerhof hand over
her. At the same moment, a fountain bubbled out of the rock.
Rainer knows his world of sagas well. We remember the secret and
ask about the Elwetritsches. He lowers his voice secretively:
»You’ve walked all the way to here and you haven’t seen any?« We
shake our heads. »Today is full moon, the chances are good.« In
the same breath he adds that you only had the real Palatinate
forest experience if you saw the moon shining on top of the trees.
The perfect place to see the scenery would be from the clump of
castles Altdahn­Grafendahn­Tanstein. Before we know what happens
we are carried away by the Palatinate enthusiasm and their
hospitality – ending up on top of the castle.
A big pale moon shines on the glittering leafy canopy, the fog
hangs heavy and wet in the valley. Suddenly there is a cry, it
sounds like a screech owl. Rainer solves the riddle: Elwetritschs
are similar to a birdlike creature, a cross­breed of grouse, elf and
troll but they sound different. So we might not find them today.
However, there is a great forest magic in the cold air. Even without
the mythical bird. Ingo Hübner
Excellent lookouts from the top of rock castles.
Forest as far as you can walk
Along the forest path
The Palatinate forest path (Pfälzer
Waldpfad) runs for 142 km from
Kaiserslautern to Schweigen-Rechtenbach.
It is divided into nine stages
Kaiserslautern
Finsterbrunnertal
Trippstadt
Heltersberg
Waldfischbach-
Johanniskreuz
Burgalben
Rodalben
Merzalben
Hauenstein
Pirmasens Dahn
Erlenbach
Bobenthal
0 km 10
Schweigen-Rechtenbach
20 km
between 16 and 23 km. Rodalber
Felsenwanderweg is worth a side trip.
Book a week of hiking
Wikinger Reisen offers an eight day
guided hike tour on the Palatinate
forest path Ludwigshafen and the nearby Weinsteig.
Overnight stay in Hauenstein. Phone:
+49 23 31/90 47 42, wikinger.de.
Speyer
More information
Brochures and more offers: Pfalz
Touristik e.V., phone: +49 63 21/391
60, pfaelzer-wanderwege.de as well as
Rheinland-Pfalz Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH, phone:
+49 261/91 52 00, wanderwunder.info.
Rhein
More information on 4-Seasons.tv/pfaelzerwald.
Travel Tip 51

Kjerag Bolten, Lysefjord, Norwegen
Spannende Ausrüstungs- und Reisetipps von
Globetrotter Experten zum Thema Trekking unter
www.4-Seasons.TV/trekking
Träume … … leben.

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Best of
Mecklenburg
Text: Niels Hoffmann | Photos: Lars Hoffmann
If there is anybody who knows the Mecklenburg Lake District like
the back of his hand, it is Lars and Niels Hoffmann. The brothers
told 4-Seasons their perfect three day tour – a pleasure triathlon
with hiking boots, canoe and bicycle.
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Lars and Niels’ plan: fitting all their favourite tours
in Mecklenburg into a long weekend.
An Indian Summer does not only exist on the other side of the big pond but also on East German lakes.
What a sound - the rustling of alder and birch leaves and
reeds in the wind. Our eyes wander across the sky. Glowing
tree crowns sway above us as we are approach the
dark blue Käbelick Lake. Finally autumn has arrived, an event I
have been longing for the whole year. Behind us, a three kilometre
hike from the train station in Kratzeburg. In front of us, a long
weekend. We want to enjoy the best spots around Mecklenburg.
We are going to make the most of the Indian summer at the Mecklenburg
Lake District for three days. We will not get tired of looking
at the colours of autumn, we want to hike through the dense forest
of the Müritz National Park, paddle with and against the wind
across lonely lakes and cycle around the largest lake in North Ger-
many, the Müritz. You could call it a Mecklenburg Triathlon. Our
ambitions are not so sporty though and our tours rather short. We
just want to be outside and experience the remote landscape of
Northeast Germany.
Silence is never more fulfilling than during autumn.
The Mecklenburg Lake District is the largest coherent region of
lakes and canals in Germany. At the same time it is so sparely
populated like nowhere else in the country. No industry dares to
move here, so nature is safe. If you make your way over here, you
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Heart-warming atmosphere after a chilly night. The region’s typical means of transportation: the canoe. Getting around by bicycle is just another way.
Hoffmanns’ Müritz Triathlon by Canoe, Bicycle and on Foot
Area: One of the biggest nature reservations
is right in the middle of the
Mecklenburg Lake District: the Müritz
National Park. There are special park
rules (mueritz-nationalpark.de). We
chose a weekend in October, our
favourite season!
Hiking: Not a classic hiking area but
several wonderful paths. Our hiking
tour leads from Kratzeburg to Granzin
along the south bank of the Käbelick
Lake. Further tips: Autumn tour
through the Serrahner Buchenwald.
It is one of the rare original forests in
Europe. Unesco World Heritage.
Paddling: Our tour went from the
young Havel to Granzin to the Jäthensee
and back. Many canoe rental
stations in that area. Beginners
should get safety advice. Round trip
possible, some canoe stations offer a
pick-up service for paddler and boat.
Cycling: Start in Granzin and go
straight across the National Park to
Boeker Mühle, passing the towns of
Rechlin and Vipperow along the Müritz
bank going all the way to Ludorf.
Next stage: along the west bank to
Waren and further on through the
forest of the National Park to Granzin.
The street lined with chestnut and
oak trees is a dream! Many towns
offer accommodation especially for
cyclists (bettundbike.de).
Getting There: By train to Waren
an der Müritz or Neustrelitz, then to
Kolpinsee
Malchow
Gotthun
Röbel
Wanderung
Kanutour
Radtour
Waren
Speck
Müritz
Boek
Granzin
Krienke
Kratzeburg
Kabelicksee
Rechlin
Vietzen
Mirow Wesenberg
Kratzeburg. Travellers by train receive
an environmental discount at some
service stations like canoe rental
shops. By car it takes two hours from
Berlin, two and a half hours from
Find the tour in all details on 4-Seasons.de/Mecklenburg.
Neubrandenburg
Penzlin
Hamburg.
Bicycle, Canoe,
Thousands of
Tips: Andreas
Landau from Kor-
Neustrelitz
moranKanutouring, Granzin 38,
17237 Kratzeburg-
Lychen Granzin, phone
+49 3 98 22/298
88, kormorankanutouring.de.
Sleep, Eat and
Relax: Romantikhotel Gutshaus
Ludorf, Rondell 7, 17207 Ludorf/
Müritz, phone +49 3 99 31/84 00,
gutshaus-ludorf.de.
never a more fulfilling time than during the autumn. Of course,
the water might be warmer during summer, the weather milder
and the days longer. But not until the majority of tourists have
left, the first campgrounds have been closed, and the fog blurs
each morning, does the landscape begin to claim back its relaxed
atmosphere. We want to start relaxed too. So, light packing is
better packing: sleeping bag, sleeping mat, tarp, camping stove,
kettle, some food and spare clothes and binoculars around the
neck – we don’t need much more for the next few days. Lightfooted
we hike eight kilometres to the next town accompanied by
a whispering wind.
We have arranged to meet Andreas Landau right next to the Havel.
Later on, the river will run through Berlin and into the Elbe. Andreas’
relaxed nature fits perfectly to this spot of land. He was one of
the first to open a canoe and bicycle rental service in the Mecklenburg
Lake District region, focusing on nature-friendly tourism. He
only hires out a certain amount of canoes to prevent over canoeing
and too much noise during high season. It should not get too busy
and the sensitive lakeside should not be damaged. Not today. We
are the only guests at the rental station.
So we get into our boats, following the Havel to the south. The
small waters connect each lake like a long pearl line. The pearls
are edged by large belts of reeds. Behind that, meadows and forests
sprawl out, the landscape is vast. The clouds have left with
the summer tourists, a clear blue sky spans above us. We are get-
ting there. The surface of the water feels untouched – a fascinating
illusion. When I look back I can see how the waves we just
created curl up and then disappear. I like the thought not leaving
anything behind, not even a trace, nothing. We just let ourselves
drift. In the middle of the Zotzensee we try to keep still like a
heron. The heron wins masterfully. Like a statue, he only watches
out for his lunch passing by.
Watching the birth of a new day while leaning back in a canoe.
We do not catch our dinner out of the water but from our lunch
boxes. Our accommodation is simple and easy: On a water-hiking
resting area we set up our tarp and unroll our sleeping mats on the
ground. When I wake up in the middle of the night I look straight
up to a sparkling sky full of stars. I love the unpopulated area for
its darkness. It got a bit cold and tomorrow there will be thick fog
over the Granziner Lake. The first rays of dawn will get tangled in it
and everything will be in a golden light. This scenery is not a premiere
for me, but each time I find it deeply moving.
The ice age was a fascinating time period. At least when looking
back at it. 15,000 years ago, the moving glaciers did not only create
hundreds of lakes but also an evenly chopped landscape, just
made for relaxed bicycle tours. After a sunrise tour with our canoes
and a large breakfast, we exchange a canoe for bicycles and
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The first night in our sleeping bag underneath the tarp,
the second night under a duvet in a romantic hotel.
The summer tourists are long gone. Many birds are going to head off soon too. Lars and Niels Hoffmann.
noon we arrive at our second destination in the town of Ludorf, set
on the west bank of the Müritz. This time, we choose exquisite
accommodation for the night. Instead of sleeping underneath a
plastic sheet we take the duvet in the romantic hotel Gutshaus
Ludorf.
Through grand hallways in outdoor clothes.
We check in with little luggage and might have attracted some attention
with our outdoor clothes as we shuffle through grand hallways.
Manor houses are fairly common in this area, often in the
centre of a village. Many manor houses got rebuild and renovated
after the reunification, some turned into hotels or cottages. Although
there is solidity and nobleness in the air, they offer a very
relaxed atmosphere, promises Manfred Achtenhagen, owner of
the manor. »How about a Finnish sauna after your canoe and bicycle
tour?« It sounds perfect, you cannot finish an autumn day any
better. Or can you?
Our host seems to know something even better. »You have to go to
the viewpoint Gnever Kuhle. You have a magnificent view over the
nature reserve Großer Schwerin, a peninsula in the Müritz. At sunset,
there are more than 5,000 cranes looking for a resting place
for the night. You can only see this natural event during autumn
when all the birds get together to fly towards the south.« Manfred
certainly knows how to get us interested.
So in the evening, we squint against the setting sun, in front of us
the wide Müritz. Cranes circle in large formations above us, and
one by one they land on the flat bank of the peninsula. We have
never seen anything like this. Again, it is the sound of the landscape
that moves me: the hooting of the birds and the rushing of
the wind. My favourite soundtrack of the Mecklenburg Lake
District during autumn.
<
Travel Brothers
Lars Hoffman has been working as a nature and
outdoor photographer for many years. He does not
only share his surname with author Niels Hoffman,
but also his passion to discover the unknown.
The brothers have been travelling around in all
directions, no matter what season, by foot, with
skies or dog sled, and of course by kayak and canoe.
They paddled down the Donau as »Die Donauten«,
accompanied by a 3sat/ZDF-TV team, wrote articles
for the Kanu-Magazin straight from the river and published the photography book
»Gesichter der Donau«, including their travel story.
Fresh from the press is their latest large-format book about the Mecklenburg
Lake District. The National Geographic Photographer praises the book: »You can’t
visualise a love letter to the Mecklenburg Lake District any better way than that.
This book has a special quality.«
»Die Mecklenburgische Seenplatte«, Photography by Lars Hoffmann, Publishing
House Edition Morizaner, Globetrotter order number 21.58.15, 224 pages, 143
photos, 29.90 euros. Available in German.

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Eifel, Guns,
and Roses?
Heinz Zak in the woods, wondering if the rain will ever stop during the photography workshop in the Eifel.
The sublime photographer Heinz Zak introduced
Loyalty Card holders to the high art of light
sculpturing – in harsh conditions.
The circumstances could not have been more different at the two
photo bivouacs that were organised by Globetrotter and supported
by Mountain Equipment. Sunshine in Saxon Switzerland and mild
nights in April so the eight participants could unroll their sleeping
bags on the sandstone and take dreamlike photos of the dusk. It
all went to plan. At the other event, pouring rain in May in the Vulkan
Eifel so that participants had to crawl into the hut of the Eifel
association at night – but at least they took pictures full of atmosphere,
dripping water and gushing creeks.
Winner Susanne L. remembers the Eifel: »With the help of Heinz
we got lost in the rich and vividly green colours, the best conditions
for macro photography. We played around near waterfalls
with aperture and exposure. We drew pictures of Heinz to work on
the framing and to learn more about the golden rule. Over all it
was about having fun.«
The planned picnic fell through and the group preferred to go out
Photo: Sebastian Wolf
Photo: Uwe Fiedler
Photo: Heinz Zak
for dinner to a restaurant. On the second day of the workshop in
the Eifel, the weather gods still could not get enough of their bad
weather pictures. Susanne and the other winners made the best
out of it: »We found nice spots on the bank of the Schalkenmehrener
Maar to take photos of reflections – truly a playing field for artistic
photography. We had better not count the blurry pictures…«
All the more happy were the sun and the photographers at the
workshop in Saxon Switzerland. But have a look for yourself… <
Evening atmosphere with Elbsandstone.
Photo biwaks
supported by
The participants of the Saxon bivouacs with Heinz Zak (left).
A Man for the Sublime Moment
Heinz Zak from Tyrol is an exceptionally gifted alpine photographer and
alpinist. Especially on his home terrain, in Karwendel, he enjoys demanding
climbing trips and takes sublime pictures. Zak has been as far away as the
Yosemite Park where he became a slackline pioneer. He is happy to pass on
his knowledge and skills via books, presentations, outdoor courses and photo
workshops. More information: heinzzak.com.
Treasure Hunt 2.0
Special event for Loyalty Card holders: Two
families tried out the GPS-supported treasure hunt
Geocaching in the Harz Mountains.
Approximately 240,000 treasure chests – the so-called
caches – are hidden in Germany’s forests, fields and cities.
On websites like geocaching.com you can find descriptions
and coordinations. Put them into your GPS, and start the
digital treasure hunt, fun for children and adults alike. A
catch usually comes with a logbook, finders can write their
name down. Markus Gründel, author of the book »Geocaching«
(Conrad Stein Publisher) first of all introduced the
winner families to the technique and the rules of geocaching.
Afterwards, they walked through Zellerfeld on the
hunt for their first treasures. Two night catches were also on
the schedule: Only a headlight and a luminous GPS display
showed the way into the pitch-black Oberharz where the
special treasures are…
<
When treasure maps turn into a Garmin.
Photo: Moving Adventures Medien

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Show »What a Trip – On an eBike
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16 October Munich,
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14 November Hamburg.
Maximilian Semsch
got lots of attention
in 2008 when he
cycled solo from
Munich to Singapore.
At the moment,
he is cycling
on an eBike around Australia. Be there when he talks live
about his adventures in Down Under and take the chance to
get special tips from the adventurer who turned his dream
into a profession.
ALix von MELLE
Workshop with extreme mountaineer
9 to 11 November, Munich.
Experience a weekend with Germany’s most successful extreme
mountaineer! Find out about your performance level
by having a professional analysis and get tips all about alpinism
from Alix von Melle, who has already been on top of five
eight-thousanders. Together, climb one of Alix’ favourite
mountains on her Bavarian home ground.
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5 November Dresden,
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homeland and its wildlife.
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Photo: Alex Obrien

66 Manufacturer Manufacturer 67
Snowy Sweden in August – the business trip turned into an adventure test for Hilleberg’s employees.
Photo: Archiv Hilleberg
Photo: Moritz Becher
Business Trip
à la Hilleberg
Ask any camper for the best tent and they will mostly likely answer:
Hilleberg. 4-Seasons got to the bottom of a 41-year success story
about Swedish perfection on a canoe trip with the tentmaker and
company founder Bo Hilleberg.
Bo Hilleberg is in his element. Surrounded by a dozen employees,
the 71-year old sits with shining eyes on a stone
and picks a potato out of the campfire. They do not talk
about business. They tell each other stories about their latest outdoor
adventure. The Swedes are not holding back with their rough
jokes. The canoes are on the bank of the lake, the tents are pitched
and leave a pattern of dark-green and red-orange dots on the
green island. Of course, Bo has found the most even and driest
spot on the ground. Decades of experience doesn’t go unnoticed.
The annual canoe tour in central Sweden’s natural reservation Rogen,
a three-hour drive from the company’s headquarter in Östersund,
has turned into a Hilleberg tradition. From the trainee to
Bo Hilleberg, head of the administrative board, they are quasi all
in the same boat. The five day business trip feels like a family
holiday. One evening, the famous Köttbullar sizzle on the gas cooker
while busy hands are collecting cranberries. Bullerby seems to
be just around the corner.
It is also the good spirit of Bo Hilleberg that is in the air. More than
40 years ago, the same entrepreneurial spark was itching to ignite in
the then-forester as in many other founding members of outdoor
companys. The passionate hiker, paddler and skier was dissatisfied
with the tents sold on the market. So he simply started to play
around. His vision: He wanted to pitch the inside and outside tent
simultaneously. He wanted to stop the inner tent from getting wet
while he tried to cover it with the loose rain fly fluttering in the wind.
A man, a plan. In 1971 Bo founded the company, mainly selling
forestry machines. In the same year he met Renate Neuner from
Kufstein while skiing in Austria. His pearl of Tyrol soon moved to
him in Sweden and their wedding marked the starting point for
»Hilleberg – The Tentmaker AB«. Renate was able to realise Bo’s
ideas with the right touch on the sewing machine. In 1973, Hilleberg
introduces the Keb, the first tent to have a connected inner
and outer. It has been a success from the very first moment.
It did not take long for the real breakthrough. In 1975 Bo received
a sample of a new material from a supplier. The fabric was both
lighter and stronger than any other fabric. Instead of the usual
polyurethane, it was coated with silicone and therefore absolutely
waterproof and incredible tearproof. »That was exactly what I was
looking for«, Bo says when he remembers the beginning of
Hilleberg’s Kerlon fabric. In comparison to the silicone-coated
Bo Hilleberg (front) on a five-day canoe trip with his colleagues. He‘s still very much the driving force in the company. >
Text: Ingo Wilhelm

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Bo Hilleberg in the Alps in 1970…
fabric, the Kerlon fabric is coated with three layers with pure silicone
on both sides. Today, it still sets the standards in terms of the
relationship of strength to weight. Meanwhile, Hilleberg uses four
versions: Kerlon 1800 (tear resistance 18 kilogram) for the
toughest tents, Kerlon SP (tear resistance 15 kilogram) for special
models like the group tent Atlas, Kerlon 1200 for the extra light
all-rounder model and Kerlon 1000 for the 3 season tent.
Hilleberg’s employees swap tents every night on the canoe trip, so
everybody can test different models. »In 2011, we first introduced
tents that weren’t meant for four seasons«, explains Bo. There
is a special demand from the American and Asian markets. So
they produced the dome tent Rogen which cuts a fine figure on its
eponymous lake. They are happy with the stability on the rough
ground and the amount of space. The 3 season tent might not
have found too many friends the year before: There was snow in
Rogen in August!
Hilleberg’s tent city is growing bigger and bigger: meanwhile, they
have 21 different models, not counting the size variables. The
… and with his children Petra and Rolf in front of a Keron in 1979.
»Of course we could create an even lighter tent. But it couldn’t
be a Hilleberg because it wouldn’t meet our requirements for
stability and durability anymore.« Bo Hilleberg
product line ranges from the very light tunnel tent Anjan (1,7 kilograms,
space for two people) to the Saitaris, a dome tent for the
toughest situations. Also, Hilleberg regularly experiments with minimalist
shelters like a tarp as a rain fly or a Mesh Tent providing
protection from insects. »Tarps are a fantastic add-on«, Bo raves.
»For example, you can create a living room by spanning a tarp
between two tents.«
Constant care and improvement
The story of Hilleberg is based on two main elements: the eagerness
to experiment and above all their strive for perfection. There
are 15 employees in Östersund, all following the six basic principles
of the Tentmaker: reliability, ease of use, versatility, durability,
comfort and weight. They would never give up weight at the expense
of other principles. »Of course we could create an even lighter
tent«, Bo says. »But it couldn’t be a Hilleberg because it wouldn’t
meet our requirements for stability and durability anymore.« In-
Photos: Archiv Hilleberg
Testing the resistance of the Kerlon fabric. Pitching each tent before delivery. Bo: 71 years old, tentmaker for 41 years.
stead of regularly throwing new models on the market, Hilleberg
focusses on continualy improving the models they have already
created. The tunnel tent Keron has been in the family since 1980
and it constantly gets optimised and is still in the pole position.
Cooling down the needles of the sewing machine
To be able to guarantee the best quality in production, Hilleberg
set up its own manufacturing base in Estonia ten years ago, currently
employing 35 people. The fabrics from international special
manufactures get scrupulously tested before they get released for
tent production. The waterproofness is the sewers’ responsibility
because it is impossible to tape silicon coated fabric. The Estonian
workers master the flat-felled seam like nobody else: each stitch
has to go through four layers of fabric. They even cool down the
needles of the sewing machine so the stitches will stay small. A
bigger stitch could influence the waterproofness and the strength.
Eventually, an in-house inspector pitches each tent, checks the
smoothness of the zippers, looks closely at every stitch. Only when
he has approved all the items making up a tent will it be put into a
bag and sent to the warehouse in Sweden or the US.
Bo’s daughter Petra is responsible for the export market overseas.
She works in the branch near Seattle together with 3 employees.
This time, Petra is taking part in the canoe trip too while her brother
Rolf is managing the company in Östersund. Maybe for not
too much longer however – he would like to spend more time with
his family and withdraw from the top of the company. »Nothing
will change for the customer though«, promises Bo.
On the last night at Rogen, a seemingly never ending rain starts to
pour down. Puddles grow bigger in front of the tents. Not in front
of Bo’s tent though: dry-shodded he crawls out of his tent. He did
it again, the old hand: found the perfect spot at the right time! <
You can find the interview with Bo Hilleberg on 41 years of
tent making online: 4-Seasons.de/Hilleberg.

70 State of the Art State of the Art 71
Salomon
XA Pro 3D Ultra 2 GTX
Is there the perfect equipment? Absolutely. In State of
the Art, 4-Seasons introduces equipment that sets the
standards in its class.
Product category Waterproof flat multifunctional shoe with trail running genes. Also
available as medium cut as well as low cut version without Gore-Tex
(without GTX in the name). For men and women.
Useage For walks and runs off the asphalt. Trail runners use it especially
for demanding terrain and longer runs.
Status From special shoe to bestseller: Originally developed for alpine
conditions, the XA Pro overtook the field of outdoor shoes and became
a trendsetter due to its lightness.
Manufacturer Salomon SA, Annecy, France.
Concept and Idea Frédéric Crétinon (48), Salomon developer since 1986, today Global
Footwear R&D Director for the parent company Amer Sports.
Technical details Weight per pair: 700 grammes in size 5.5. Price: 144.95 €.
History In 1947, François and Georges Salomon, father and son, founded
their company in Annecy. Salomon first only focused on alpine
sport. It was not until 1992 that they introduced their first hiking
boot to the market aiming at the trail run. »Sponsoring great outdoor
competitions showed us what people who run outdoors need«,
remembers developer Frédéric Crétinon. In 2001, when nobody
was talking about »trail running«, Salomon put the XA Pro 1 on the
market. A year later, 30 trail runners help with the development.
Their most important criterion: stability. Salomon's reply: an advanced
chassis design protecting the midsole foam material. The
XA Pro 2 was born. In 2005, the shoe is optimised with a 3D advanced
chassis and is now called XA Pro 3D. In 2008 »Ultra« came into
the name following enhanced cushioning. Finally, the 2 (after
another improvement) and the GTX (Gore-Tex) were added to the
name.
Purchase advice on video: 4-Seasons.tv/film/kaufberatung-leichte-schuhe-mit-funktion.
STATe
OF The ART
Reference
Product
You could say that
the XA Pro has left its
running-shoe birthplace. It convinced
many hikers that they can also walk
with a low cut shoe. There is stability,
comfort, traction and protection with
little weight leading to a more pleasurable
end to the day and less fatigue.
Frédéric Crétinon (48),
Salomon shoe developer
The XA Pro 3D Ultra
2 GTX convinces in
many ways such as the clever lacing
system and the non-slip sole. It is more
stable than a common trail-running
shoe and therefore an all-rounder. Not
to forget the design – the XA Pro has
become a trendy lifestyle product.
Andreas Petz (49),
Globetrotter Expert
upper MATeriAL
Breathable, quick-drying
mesh and synthetic leather for
stability.
WATerproof proTecTion
Gore-Tex membrane »Extended
Comfort Footwear«.
Waterproof protection and
breathability to keep you
dry and comfortable.
proTecTive Toe cAp
Made of shock proof
rubber (TPU).
»SenSifiT« SySTeM
Crisscross stripes made of
synthetic leather connected to
the lacing system. Cradles the
foot from both sides. Perfect
stability with little weight.
»QuickLAce«
Fast on, fast off with only one pull. Distributes
the pressure on the whole foot and
enables a customised fit. No step-by-step
lacing. Plastic eyelets provide smoother
lacing and fit. Asymmetrical lacing for
a better fit. Solid one-pull tightening, no
need to readjust. Rest of lace and lock
can be easily stored in a pocket. Covered
Kevlar laces – tear resistant!
»conTAgrip« ouTSoLe
Forefoot flex grooves provide stability on
all sides (see figure below). Self cleaning,
combination of different kinds of rubber
hardness for perfect mix of grip and
durability. Less abrasion on asphalt than
trail running race shoes.
Tongue
Tongue is connected to the
upper so no stones or water
can penetrate.
MidSoLe
Sole is low cut which allows
movement yet minimises the
danger of twisting. More stable
and harder than a pure trail
runner. Moderate drop of 10
mm. Control of pronation (stabilising
element to prevent the
foot from twisting inwards) to
absorb the lateral movements,
in particular when descending
in order to prevent knee
damage.
»orThoLiTe« SockLiner
Cushioned and breathable
foam under the foot. Heel cup
made of Ethylenvinylacetat
foam (EVA) secures stability.
MidSoLe (A)
»energy ceLL 2«
Great cushioning due to
EVA foam with recycled tire
content. Perfect compromise
of shock absorption and
resilience (ability of material
to recover).
MidSoLe (b)
»AdvAnced 3d chASSiS«
3D advanced chassis between
the outsole and midsole
maximises stability, energy
management and push-through
protection.
A
heeL Loop
For easy on-off. Possible
to carry on harness.
B A

72 Equipment Advice Equipment Advice 73
What to take with you on a mountaineering expedition and an alpine tour
» Battling with
materials«
Interview: Julian Rohn | Photos: Archiv Alix von Melle
An eight-thousander and more than 80 things to pack:
Germany’s most successful extreme mountain climber
Alix von Melle* tells us what she took on her Mount
Manaslu expedition – and gives helpful tips suitable for
the »normal« alpinist.
*Alix von Melle (40) is Globetrotter
Munich’s press spokeswoman and
has already climbed five eightthousanders.
The complete
Manaslu packlist including
prices and weights on
4-Seasons.de/manaslu.

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Equipment Advice
Alix, last spring you went on a Mount
Manaslu expedition with your
colleague Rainer Jäpel from Globetrotter
Dresden and the DAV Summit Club.
You had to return before you reached the
8,163 meter high summit because of a
thunderstorm. What was your most important
piece of equipment on that day?
I guess I would not be sitting here if I
hadn‘t had my GPS. We couldn’t see
anything on our way down but had to find
the two fixed rope traverses. We would never
have found them without the GPS – it
was worth its weight in gold.
What was your protection against the storm
and cold?
At a high attitude the first layer I usually
wear is warm underwear made of merino
wool. Over it, a jumper and pants out of
power-stretch fleece. To keep the trunk
warm, I wear a Prima Loft Jacket. The top
layer is my down suit, I don’t take it off
once I’m above 7,000 metres not even in
my sleeping bag. I put a Buff around my
neck, protect my face with a neoprene
mask and snow goggles. Never without my
Beanie, of course.
Your packing list includes a hard shell jacket
and pants, known to every outdoor
person as protection against wind and rain.
Why don’t you wear them at high attitude?
Hard shell clothes protect you perfectly
against bad weather. I only wear Gore-Tex
clothes up to 6,500 metres though. Higher
up it is important to have real insulation, you
don’t need one hundred percent waterproofness
at such an altitude. The outer fabric of
my down suit is pretty waterproof. I leave my
hard shell clothes at the mid camp.
The notorious death zone lies between the
last camp and the summit. What is in your
backpack at that time?
A thermos flask with a hot drink, handkerchiefs,
another pair of goggles, a spare
pair of gloves, a little bivouac sack and a
»Close to the summit
I always use heated
insoles in my boots.«
first aid kit. Some mountaineers don’t take
a backpack at all on the last climb. I don’t
like putting a bottle in my down suit
though. I only put a little camera in my
pock et so the batteries won’t cool down. I
always have a muesli bar with me that I carry
in my down suit as well, so it stays edible.
Why do you bring a spare pair of gloves?
They don’t get wet in the cold, do they?
They don’t get wet but they are easy to
lose. At Denali in Alaska, I clamped my
mittens between my legs while taking a
photo. When I got up I totally forgot about
them. Of course they flew away immediately.
My husband Luis was luckily able to
lend me his overmittens. Ever since, I tie
my mittens on my wrist. And in addition,
there is always another pair of warm gloves
in my rucksack.
Nobody likes cold feet. Especially not in the
Arctic cold of the eight-thousanders. How
Manaslu 2012: Alix (left) and climbing partner Saskia Sippel.
do you prevent your feet from
freezing?
Right on the skin I wear Falke’s
thin Double-Dry socks. They
keep your feet dry and protect
against rubbing and blisters. On
top of them I wear the thickest
merino wool socks we have in the
program. As soon as we leave the
base camp, I use special expedition
boots. They have specially
integrated gaiters and the aluminium
lining keeps you nice and
warm. They also have warm soles
and inner boot. The boots cost
more than 700 euros but are
worth every cent if you want to
keep your toes. I also use heated
insoles…
You use heated insoles? Like any alpin
skier who is not used to the cold?
Exactly. The cheapest model is
the best one. Simply connect the
wire and put the box with the
four AA-batteries with the inner
boot. They keep warm the whole
day if you use lithium batteries
on medium level – rechargeable
batteries would flag quickly in
the cold. Sometimes I put a heat
pack on my toes. There is enough
space in the boots for it.
Approaching an eight-thousander
is a slow but steady climb. There
were four camps on the Manaslu,
the high camp at an attitude of
7,400 metres. Is there no sleeping
bag for such attitudes or why
did you sleep in your down suit?
I do use hardcore sleeping bags
like the Western Mountaineering
Bison, but only in the base camp.
At that stage it is important that
you sleep comfortably and relaxed.
For the high camp I reduce
the weight and only take a light
sleeping bag with a comfort zone
of -20 degrees. That is enough in
combination with a down suit.
The same for the mat: luxury in
the base camp, light in the high
camp. I took the new NeoAir
xTherm to the Manaslu: super
light, little pack space, and the
layers of reflective material recycle
the body heat.
So, air mattresses do not get damaged
when the moisture of your
breath freezes inside?
That is what many people say but
I have never had a frozen mattress,
even though you have to
blow the XTherm up hard. Maybe
that‘s because the volume >
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huskytrack
Manaslu – Mountain of the Spirit
The Manaslu (8,163 m) is located in the Mansiri
Himal in West Nepal. To the southeast there is the
Ganesh Himal and to the Northwest the Annapurna
(8,091). The name Manaslu comes from the
Sanskrit meaning Mountain of the Spirit. In addition
to the main peak, another two peaks rise from the
plateau: the east (7,992 m) peak and the north
(6,994 m) peak. The mountain was first successfully
ascending by a Japanese expedition. It is said
to be a bad weather mountain because of many
storms and heavy snowfall.
Ascent
Approaching the mountain up northeast face,
the base camp (4800 m) is located at the lateral
moraine of the glacier. Camp 1 (5,700 metres) is
set in mixed terrain. The route to Camp 2 follows
a long glacial ramp and a steep section of ice.
Beware of ice falling from séracs. The second
camp (6,300 m) is located on a glacial plateau
below the north col. The next steps lead along
steep snow slopes and a short ice slope to the
great plateau. Camp 3 is set up in a protected
hollow at 6,900 metres. A fourth camp is situated
at 7,400 metres before climbing the exposed ridge
to the summit.
Trekking in the Manaslu region
The Manaslu Circuit Trek is one of the great trekking
classics in Nepal. It takes two weeks and includes
the Larkya-Pass (5,135 m) amongst others. The trek
leads through several types of vegetation and civilisation,
still in its most remote and original landscapes.
A permit is compulsory. DAV Summit Club
offers the route as a guided Lodge-Trek. Information
on the tour and the booking: dav-summit-club.de.
Literature
Reinhold Messern: »Sturm am Manaslu – Drama
auf dem Dach der Welt«, Malik-Verlag, ISBN 978-34
92 40 33 51, Globetrotter Order Number: 16.51.08,
11.95 euros.
of the air reduces in the cold and therefore
the mattress is softer in the morning.
What else do you have to be aware of in a
high camp?
First of all: always try to keep weight down,
for example with oral care chewing gums
instead of tooth brush and paste. Secondly,
everything that might freeze has to go into
the sleeping bag like contact lenses, camera,
headlight, and thirdly, the pee bottle.
Why a pee bottle in the tent?
I drink a lot, at least four litres a day. The
better I adjust to the attitude, the more water
naturally goes out again. I have to go
pee three times a night. I used to go outside
but when I came back into the tent I
was chilled to the bone. If I did not go I
would not be able to sleep properly. The
pee bottle and a Whiz Freedom Urinal are
the perfect solution.
In the high camp, you have to melt snow to
gain water. Why do you use a fuel stove?
Apparently they don’t work very well in the
attitude or the cold…
It is fun to melt snow with the Reactor
MSR. Thanks to the large burner and heat
exchanger you get the optimal heat for little
fuel and therefore you again have little
weight. Furthermore, the base of the pot
serves as a wind protector. The mixture of
butane, isobutane and propane are very efficient
in the cold. At night, we kept them
in the tent.
Reinhold Messner wouldn’t leave without
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choc olate. In the lower camps we had a lot
of freeze-dried food and muesli. The higher
we went the worse the food got – we ate pureed
baby food because it is easily digestible.
Often you don’t have any appetite and
only drink soup because of the liquid.
Your husband Luis and you slept in a
single-wall tent. Why didn’t you take an
expedition tent with
an inner tent?
A single-wall tent is
lighter and takes up
less space. You usually
have to hack a platform
into the ice anyway.
On the Manaslu,
some climbers used
double-wall tents in
the higher camps.
They were torn up after
the first couple of
storm nights because
the wind got under
them better. Our tent
was in mint condition.
A disadvantage of a single skin tent is however
that exhaled breath freezes immediately
on the tent wall. You turn around and
it basically snows down on you inside the
tent. Very annoying.
Before you set foot on the Manaslu you had
to walk to the base camp for nine days.
How did you carry all your luggage?
Sherpas and donkeys carried our main luggage
to the base camp. So I only travelled
with a light backpack. In it I had a drinking
bottle and rain clothes, as well as a spare
shirt. In case it gets cold when we take a
break I always have a Power Stretch Hoodie
and a Primaloft jacket with me. Sun cap,
a Buff, a pair of windstopper gloves and a
Beanie are compulsory. Often we were at
Dinner is ready! Alix’ husband Luis Stitzinger.
»A few tents were torn up
after the stormy nights. Our
tent was in mint condition.«
the camp before the Sherpas arrived so we
had to wait for our tents.
So the food was probably much better in
the base camp than in the high camps…
There was a chef with us who even baked
bread. Two kitchen hands took care of the
supplies during those four weeks. They
brought chicken and fresh vegetables
from the valley. >

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Climbing follows nine days of trekking.
There is a lot of waiting around on an expedition
like this. What do you do?
Read. Last year we spent ten days in the
base camp at Broad Peak, we were ready
but the weather wasn’t. It would be awful
for me not to have enough books.
After physical exercise you long for a shower.
How does hygiene work in the base camp?
When I happen to take a shower I use the
biodegradable body wash from Sea to
Summit sparingly because the water runs
straight into the snow. Often, cleaning wip-
es are good enough
because you hardly
sweat in the cold.
When I want to wash
my hair I use a bucket
of warm water from
the camping kitchen.
What happens with
the rubbish?
It gets separated in
the base camp and returned
to the valley.
Even the toilet, which
takes the form of a
barrel with bin liners
hung inside.
»Cleaning wipes are often
the better shower.«
On top of the mountain you are dressed
like polar adventurers, in the base camp
like trekkers. Does your wardrobe offer
some thing in between?
Absolutely. The equipment from the base
camp to the high camps is similar to normal
alpine tour equipment that you use in the
Alps: long underwear, a layer of Power
Stretch Fleece covered by another layer of
soft or hard-shell clothes. As additional insulation,
I always bring my Prima Loft Jacket.
Do you need special climbing equipment
for an eight-thousander?
Usually not. Near the glacier I wear a harness
with the usual equipment attached:
carabiners, accessory cord, ice screws and
of course crampons and an ice axe. I didn’t
wear a helmet in the Manaslu because
there is rarely a danger of rock or ice fall.
Unlike when in the Alps, on a high altitude
tour you clip the jumar onto a static rope.
Your Manaslu packlist combines luxury
and minimalism. Did you really bring an
inflatable pillow?
Sure. Perfect for the breaks and the evenings
in the cold dining tent of the base
camp. Expeditions are a little material
battle. You are outside for many weeks, you
do not want to suffer all the time.
What is it like to pack a normal backpack
after such a material battle – just like any
other alpinist?
Fantastic. I often get asked if I train for
such big tours with an extra heavy backpack.
No way! It’s enough when I have to
carry the damn thing on an expedition. <
The packlist and the interview in full length online: 4-Seasons.de/manaslu.
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Travel
Restless in
England
Text: Monika Mai | Photos: Gerald Hänel
Hiking, climbing, paddling, fishing – there is a lot to do on
a family holiday in the Lake District. Especially when two
sons are keen to get into the action…
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Travel
Our boys are at home in the big city of Hamburg and know
the street jungle by heart. How will they feel in the English
hiking paradise? How will the 13-year-old twins handle an
overdose of landscape? Nature instead of notebook for a whole
week? Parents need to bring an overdose of optimism on the way.
Always. After all, the Lake District is not only all about romantic
lakes and pathways but also full of action and adventure. So a via
ferrata is on our schedule for the last day, remote but promising.
Our first tour brims over with superlatives: We are on England’s
highest mountain (Scafell Pike at 978 metres) above England’s
deepest lake (Wastwater, 139 meter deep) with England’s most
beautiful view. Wasdale Hall Youth Hostel is our base camp, a
19th century country residence located directly on the lake with a
big saloon and a house bar – complete with country house flair. No
mobile phone connection though, sorry boys. When we arrive, Wastwater
is shining in the golden evening sun. The next morning
does not disappoint us as this is what you have to expect at the
end of April in North England: five degrees (at least above zero),
grey sky. And the weather forecast keeps on promising more bad
weather to come.
Thanks to the weather we do not choose the highest mountain and
are back in time for lunch. We put on our rain jackets. »Do I have
to?« Franz looks at us as if we want to punish him. Some things
just cannot get into a teenager’s head. The young man has not
reckoned with his mother. We do not want to spoil our break because
of a sick 13-year old. Luis only needs a piercing look to put
on his cap. There we go.
Off to an enchanted lake, Greendale Tarn. There is only one lake in
the Lake District that is actually called »Lake«. All the others are
designated »Mere«, »Water« and »Tarn«. The track along the
course of a stream is steep and washed out. On top, there is only a
mountain lake between bright green but swampy fields. Nothing
else. No tree. No bush. No sign. A foretaste of what is to come.
The boys are as hungry as wolves when we descend from Greendale
Tarn. Of course, it starts raining. It is bucking down, it is raining
cats and dogs – there are enough English phrases for their seemingly
one and only weather. The hikers that arrive at the pub Wasdale
Head Inn just a little bit later got the full bucket of it. They are
wet to the skin and put their jackets near the chimney. The view on
top of the mountain into the valley was limited to two metres, and
rain was mixed with snow, just as promised. Luis and Franz look at
the photographs of George and Ashley Abrahams on the pub’s
walls: two mountaineers that wear hobnailed boots and tweed jackets
on the peak of the »Napes Needles«. Wasdale Head Inn has
been a meeting point for climbing pioneers from all over England
for more than 100 years. Some are still here, laid to rest in St.
Olaf’s Church cemetery next to the pub. Climbers that have underestimated
the mountains around the Lake District or who just had
bad luck. Back in the youth hostel, a dozen soaked and dirty hiking
boots are standing in the hallway. We put ours next to them. The
boys changed their minds about the totally-uncool hiking boots as
they did not get any blisters and came back with dry feet.
The Lake District has been a National Park for 60 years, the biggest
one in England with its 2,292 square kilometres. Traditionally,
it is a region based on farming and mining. Nowadays, their
main source of income is tourism. A quarter of the National Park
belongs to the National Trust, a British association that more than
100 years ago devoted itself to preserving the wonderful natural
landscapes and the cultural assets. The Trust lets more than 90
farms around the lakes on lease, including the farm of >
They are kids of the big city. How will the 13 year old
twins handle an overdose of landscape?
Luis tries to fit in
with the blue colour
of the lake.
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Living like a Lord in the youth hostel and
like a lonely explorer up in the mountains.

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The best spot for
a football ground.
Unfortunately,
not even a bite on
England’s largest
lake.
children’s author Beatrix Potter. Sometimes we feel like we are in
the middle of one of her books, living with the rabbits, geese and
frogs. The boys are too old for that now.
Culture is on the schedule for the next day. Best to sell to teenagers
in a combo-package of picnic and ice cream. A magical location
can be found on the mountain plateau above the village of
Keswick. More than 5,000 years ago, people from the Bronze Age
created a stone circle. I am impressed and wonder how they carried
ten tonnes of rocks up the hill. The boys do not care. They use
the mystical rocks as boulders and climb around. At least, they
know to appreciate the fantastic view: the mountains Helvellyn,
Skiddaw and Blencathra are amongst the highest in the Lake
District and ideal for testing the pronunciation of 7th graders.
Moving houses: off to our next youth hostel Barrow House, a country
estate from the 18th century. The window of the pool table
room looks straight on to Derwant Water, our room window points
to Cat Bells, a mountain we want to approach the next day. We
start in style: our youth hostel has its own jetty on the beach. The
historical wooden boat goes around the lake and brings us to the
start of the hiking trail. Alfred Wainright, the pope of British hikers,
once wrote enthusiastically about Cat Bells. He climbed all
the 214 summits of the Lake District 50 years ago. Still today, it is
the aim of many hikers to climb all the »Wainwrights« of the area.
The weather has changed again. Dry but stormy. The path to the
peak is well-trodden, some parts you have to climb with hands and
feet. No problem for light-footed teenagers. Vertigo is a foreign
word for them. Teenagers always feel a bit immortal. The wind almost
blows us down from the mountain. Finally: the rough peak on
Nature instead of notebook.
No problem in such an
exciting area.
the top, Derwent Water down in the lovely valley – it is probably
the contrast that makes the landscape so very special. The secret
behind the English tradition of garden architecture is to be found
in the Lake District: Expect something different and new around
each corner! Back at the youth hostel the boys go and play another
game of soccer. Where do they get their energy from?
Harry Potter couldn’t have mastered it any better.
The days just fly in the Lake District. Whole mountain ranges have
been hollowed out by mining like a Swiss cheese but you cannot
see it. As a rule, you will not spot any hiking signposts. The next
lesson for the boys: improve the sense of direction with a map and
compass. Their parents can still teach them how to walk crosscountry
to the next town with a fish and chip shop. Let us start:
Where are we? Where do we want to go? How far away is it? Luis
locates our position, the track we are on and calculates the length
of the route. He sets the compass, puts his glasses back on
straight and starts walking up the next hill on his own, turns
around, waves and vanishes behind the next hilltop. We take another
path. I am a little bit worried. Unnecessarily as it turns out:
he is already on the other side in the boulder valley waiting for us
with a big grin. Harry Potter couldn’t have mastered it any better.
From then on, Luis is the owner of the compass. It does not help him
at the foot of the mountain. He stops as if glued to the spot in front
of a wall: An impressive viper enjoys the sun on the warm stones.
Luis is no fan of big snakes. His twin brother rescues him. Franz
starts dancing in his heavy boots and chases the viper away. >
The secret behind the English tradition of
garden architecture is to be found in the
Lake District: Expect something different
and new around each corner!

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Enough of tranquillity: finally some action again
amongst the remains of the mines.
Luckily, Nessie lives 100 miles up north and so we venture to go
on a canoe tour on Lake Windermere the next day. Adi from Waterhead
youth hostel hires out kayaks and canoes and gives us hints
where to go and what to catch. We always take our fishing line on
holiday. So we head for the River Rothay which is, according to
Adi, densely populated with fish. Maybe he just told us one of his
fish tales about fat perches. It does not stop us from having fun
though. I especially enjoyed the view of the landscape which we
could not have seen before because the main part of the river bank
is private property. Boat houses lie behind enchanted islands,
state ly country estates are set in parks.
Enough of the tranquillity: finally some action again! Jonny leads
us along a via ferrata on Honister Pass and through a former slate
mine. After a short walk we click ourselves into the steal rope.
Jonny makes clear we should always have one carabiner in the
Remote but
promising:
the via ferrata
up onto
Fleetwith
Pike.
rope. If it rumbles from the top, scream out loud »stones!« and get
close to the mountain to find shelter. Easy-peasy climbing for
Franz. He has his eyes on the »Via Ferrata Extrem« that goes
straight over the gorge using ice cramps. Our route is enough for
me though. High and exciting enough for 50-year-old joints…
Jonny takes a break at a cave. 150 years ago, mineworkers used to
work here, sleep and eat. The opposite of a Feng Shui working place;
dark and cold. Today, slate roof tiles are being produced in the mines
once again. Guaranteed durability: 300 years. We manage to climb
the last metres and reach the peak of Fleetwith Pike, 649 metres
high. »This is simply the best view!«, Jonny is excited, turns around
and explains to us: »Over there is Lake Butermere, and there is
Scafell Pike, and over there is the Irish Sea.« Exhilarated from the
climb, the boys enjoy the panorama. Our highest mountain in the
lakes! The whole family at the peak of happiness.
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Getting there, local transport and accommodation in the Lake District
Lake District National Park:
lakedistrict.gov.uk – the link to all
information on weather, accommodation,
traffic, fishing, camping etc.
Best time to travel: May to June,
September to October.
Flight: Hamburg – Manchester with
easyjet from 80 € return; Lufthansa
from other German airports.
Transport: Rental car: from 200 €/
week; Manchester – Lake District
150 km. Bus, ferry: Ferries operate
on the larger lakes. Alternatives are
the overland buses. cumbria.gov.uk/
buses.
Accommodation: 24 youth hostels
situated in the Lake District
(4-bed-room ca. 70 €). Yha.org.uk.
Derwentwater Hostel, derwentwater.
org (table tennis, soccer, jetty – Luis’
and Franz’ favourite). Most of the
YHAs have wash ing machines, dryers,
a kitchen and a restaurant. Stylish
holiday homes and more information
on attractions: nationaltrust.org.uk.
Hiking information: walkingbritain.
co.uk; wainwright-walks.co.uk. Best
maps are Ordnance Survey Explorer
Maps OL4-7. Hiking guides in English:
Alfred Wainwright’s »Pictorial Guide
to the Lakeland Fells« (7 volumes),
Mark Richards’ »Great Mountain days
in the Lake District« (2008).
Honister »Via Ferrata«: honisterslate-mine.co.uk.
The three-hour
hike is no problem for fit people
without a fear of heights; older than
10 years and 130 cm tall. Adults
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from 45 €, children from 35 €,
families from 140 €.
Bicycles, canoes etc.: Rental shops
in bigger towns and on some lakes.
We got our canoes in Waterhead
from u-cando.co.uk, from 15 €/hour;
kayaks from 12 €/hour; mountainbikes
25 €.
Pubs, cafés, shops etc.: Wasdale
Head Inn (Pub and B&B), wasdale.
com; Keswick: outdoor shop »Georg
Fischer«; «Café Bar 26« (B&B), excellent
coffee. »Good Taste« Deli and
Bistro (wild pork burger); »Booth’s«
Supermarket with a range of fresh
local products and specialities.
Travel guide: »Rough Guide to the
Lake District« by Jules Brown (2010);
»Lake District« by Jill Turton.
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Who would ever drop a career in the trendy computer game
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similar intensive climbing trip he feels exhausted but happy: »I
feel as snug as a bug in a rug, simply free and balanced.«
Text and Photos: Manuel Arnu
Inner balance means a lot to him. He demonstrated this two years
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Philipp grew up in Bergisch Gladbach. He was no city kid, he preferred
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Whether he finds the perfect backpack for a Globetrotter customer or goes climbing outside: Philipp Clodius feels fantastic.
For some people it takes years to broaden their knowledge about the
perfect equipment. Not for Philipp: he studied everything in fast motion.
He read books, did his research online, asked his colleagues.
into a job that is closely connected to nature. Globetrotter Cologne
was just looking for new staff. Philipp applied – knowing that he did
not have a broad knowledge about the great outdoors or equipment.
Gaining knowledge in fast motion
His lack of experience was no secret to the store manager Klaus
Weichbrodt when Philipp sat down with him. And anyway, why
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from scratch. If there was a chance later on to climb the career
ladder he would not refuse… He convinced the boss. Philipp started
in the branch store‘s department for women’s travel, moving to
the backpack department after half a year.
For some people it takes years to broaden their knowledge about
the perfect equipment. Not for Philipp: He studied everything in
fast motion. He read books, did his research online, asked his
colleagues. »At the beginning, I had so many questions and asked
Photo: Ole Schulz
all of them – so I gained lots of knowledge in the
first months.« Philipp’s mentor is the manager of
the backpack department Ralf Hünerbein, who
boasts experience from backpacking in Asia, and
colleague Maik Bunzenthal, who likes to spend his
time on winter treks in Scandinavia. Theory needs
its practise though. So Philipp went around with
his bicycle and canoe, started climbing and
indulg ed himself in his intensive camping trips in
the Eifel. The best thing about his autonomous education
program: He loves it.
In autumn 2011, head of department Barbara Esser
suggested Philipp for the Outdoor Academy of
Scandinavia (OAS) event – a five day trekking tour
through Jämtland. Philipp gets the chance to test
products by Woolpower, Klättermusen, Optimus,
Hilleberg and Haglöfs and broaden his know­how
at the same time. A priceless experience.
The perfect advice on backpacks
Meanwhile Philipp has got infected with the outdoor
virus, and happily passes it on to everybody
else. »You are moving under your own steam, you
overcome obstacles and experience yourself and
nature so intensively – that’s the best about outdoor
tours! When you come back into everyday
life, you feel truly grounded.«
By now, Philipp knows all the backpacks in the Globetrotter
range by heart. More than 50 models, from
daypacks to backpacks for touring, trekking and
climbing. Backpacks for children, bikers and even
dogs. The range is impressive, advice is needed.
How do you give the perfect advice? First of all,
Philipp says, you need to know the area of use. It
is a common mistake to use the wrong backpack
in the wrong area. »Some people use a touring
backpack as a trekking backpack or as a backpack
for long distance travel. The touring backpack is
usually made for a weight of up to 12 kilograms –
most of the time, it is overloaded. So it’s no surprise
when it is uncomfortable and fits like a wet
bag on the back.«
The fit is similarly important. »We convince the
customer to choose the backpack that fits the
best«, explains Philipp. »Brand and colour are not
so important.«
Globetrotter’s most sold backpacks are mainly day
and touring backpacks: backpacks for daily use
when shopping, going to work or for shorter and
longer hiking tours like the Eifelsteig or the Camino
de Santiago trail.
Super light daypacks start off at 15 euros. The
most expensive model is Bergan’s Alpinist Large,
almost as big as a fridge and it might get as heavy
as one. 135 litres volume, more than 30 kilogram
capacity. »This is a very special backpack made
for long independent trekking tours where you
take lots of fuel and food«, says Philipp. »For example
when you go on a winter trekking tour with
warm clothes or on hunting trips. The Alpinist
Large costs almost 500 euros. It does not get sold
very often. However, if somebody really needs this
backpack and buys it, the customer will be very
happy with it…«
All backpack models are packed with weights so
customers can get a realistic test experience.
Daypacks usually take 5 kilograms, trekking
backpacks for men around 16 kilograms, a little
bit less for women. »We send our customers on a
little travel tour through our store, up the stairs
and down again for at least 15 minutes. Then
you will start to notice if the backpack moves
around and how the weight sits on your muscles
and the body.«
Philipp also helps to adjust the backpacks so they
sit perfectly and the pressure is on the right spot.
»Often, the backpack hangs too low. Customers
cannot understand why it feels so heavy and pulls
them backwards. Everybody’s body shape is different
and we help to adjust the backpacks to fit perfectly:
customers feel the difference. They are
suddenly in a totally new world of backpacking«
Friendly and easy-going
Philipp really likes to work with customers: »Every
day, even when it gets exhausting, I enjoy giving
advice and having direct contact to customers. It
is exciting every day, there is always something
new. A man came in the other day in full hiking
outfit and started talking shop about the backpacks
30 and 40 years ago.«
As different as colleagues and customers can be,
they all have one thing in common: »Everybody is
very friendly and easy­going. I haven’t met any
outdoor person who is uptight.«
This opinion seems to be mutual. Cologne’s
head of the backpack department Ralf Hünerbein
will go on a longer vacation from autumn
on. The young man who came to backpacks only
two years ago will represent him during that
time: Philipp Clodius.
Last question: Which backpack does Philipp use
the most? Like almost every Globetrotter employee,
he has a full range at home. His first
choice for climbing and weekend trips or tours to
the Eifel in summer is the Deuter ACT Trail 32. »It
is perfect for my back and I can carry up to 12
kilo grams: sleeping mattress and sleeping bag,
clothes, dinner and breakfast; and a bottle of beer
or wine for the after­work drink in the tent.«
Philipp Clodius does not need much more to be at
peace with himself and the world around him. <
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96 Dream Trip Dream Trip 97
The southwest of Utah is
red, hot and stony. But in
between the wasteland,
there is one of the greatest
natural wonders on earth.
A magical world of rocks
and lights. Make sure
you’re ready when you
enter…

98 Dream Trip Dream Trip 99
… because you have
to descend to an
adventurous world of
the slot canyons.
Text: Ingo Hübner
Photos: Diana Haas
Do not jump into your automobile and rush out to the Canyon
country. (…) In the first place you can’t see anything from a car;
you’ve got to get out and walk, or better crawl, on hands and knees
(…). When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you’ll see
something, maybe.
I remain silent, setting free my last precise thoughts that originate
straight from Edward Abbey’s travel journal. Let them rise along
the glowing red rock walls until they disappear into nothingness in
the ultramarine sky. I am a pilgrim, my mind is pure and dwells in
the freshness of the moment. We have just started walking from
the Temple of Sinawava, equipped with a paltry backpack, two
water bottles and a shoulder-high walking stick. I am moving along
the pilgrim stream along the Virgin River straight into Zion Canyon,
the main attraction of Zion National Park. On the way to the
most infamous canyoning tour in America’s southwest: The
Narrows. The sandstone walls are 600 metres high, and no ten
metres apart at their most narrow point. The hike through the canyon
goes for 20 kilometres, most of the people do not walk further
than the first three kilometres. After one hour, there are hardly any
of the other pilgrims left.
Guide Rob has not talked much. I ask him why he has not told us
anything. He says he wanted to let nature tell its own story. I ask
him, who Sinawava was. It is the name of a powerful Paiute Indian
deity that used to live in the area but did not occupy the canyon.
Sinawa means God of tranquillity and kindness and was responsible
for the harvest of the Paiute natives. On the park’s entrance,
the rock Kinasava is sitting there enthroned. This was an evil spirit
that is said to have resided in the canyon. This is the reason why
Not only stones but also sticks block the way into Slot Canyon.
the Paitute Indians did not settle down near him and only ventured
into the park at daytime. Slowly, Rob starts talking. He is
very earthbound: long blond, messy hair, a tangy summer canyonguide
odour is in the air. He tells us the story of Zion Canyon’s
great power that attracted many people who moved to Springdale,
the town at the entrance – but had to leave the place after a few
years because they could not handle its power emotionally. Zion
Canyon is supposed to reinforce your karma, too. Rob smiles mischievously.
We wade through water, an invisible stream is pulling
us, we climb across rocks. I get a strong physical feeling for such
sublime nature in its monumental solitude. Until we reach Wall
Street, a weird name for such a quiet place. I marvel with a stiff
neck, feeling tiny, nearly crushed by dignity turned into stone. So
here it is, the power of the rock, of the canyon that Rob was talking
about.
Getting lost in a place
Utah’s southwest boasts a magnificent landscape. It attracted
many people of different kinds with its magnetic character. Mormons
were looking for freedom, artists searched for inspiration
and solitude. Thomas Moran painted it, Everett Ruess turned it
into poetry. It was them who glorified the landscape, raised it to
divinity and turned the rough and remote desert into a place of
dreams and their desire. It is a place they and many others got lost
in. Everett Ruess is probably the most famous artist of the gettinglost-type.
At the same time, he is most clouded in secrecy. He got
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»When you walk long enough through Slot Canyon,
you can rub yourself against the soft sand stone,
rub yourself until you disappear.«
different from most of the rest of the world. (…) As to when I shall
visit civilization again, it will not be soon, I think. (…) I prefer the
saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure
and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway,
and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities«,
wrote Everett Ruess in his last letter to his brother Waldo,
packed his two mules and entered the Davis Canyon, a side-canyon
of the Escalante River near the town Escalante, and was never
to be seen again. It was November 1934, Ruess was 20 years old.
His poetry and his departure without any compromise have made
him a cult figure today (more on page 103). Still, many myths and
legends about what became of him breeze through the canyons of
southern Utah.
You really get underneath the surface of the mysterious area while
you walk through the slot canyon: The walls press the air out of
your lounges when you try to squeeze through the most narrow
spots. When you walk long enough, you can rub yourself against
the soft sand stone, rub yourself until you disappear. It might be
the way Everett Ruess did it to become one with nature. »A short
while ago they found dusted bones in the area where Ruess disappeared.
It was quiet a media event because they claimed they
were his remains. Scientists examined the bones but found out
that they were from a different time«, Bill sums up the latest
news. Today, he leads the Slot-Canyon-Tour together with Lanell.
In the tight womb of mother earth.
Aflame: evening walk in Snow Canyon State Park.
Enough talk. Difficult canyon terrain in front of us with passages
that require long ropes – Bill doesn’t want to tell us how long – in
an area you could end up like Ruess. You can still see Zion’s
mountains, Lanell points to the horizon before we make our way
down. We slide into a kind of rock tube, walk for a few metres, and
there is already the next gap in the rock. Behind it, the sky and
nothing else. Bill and Lanell ask us how far we think it goes down.
10 metres? 15? 20? A little bit more, replies Lanell and smiles.
Get us ready for the descent! Belay, throw the rope and so on. No
problem, I just learned it all yesterday. Bill checks the belay system
once more carefully, eventually we all have to go down there.
For a second I feel like James Bond and I arrive one skyscraper
deeper. Even more far away from civilisation and the world. We
thought we were already far away before. In the tight womb of
moth er earth, Novalis would have loved the feeling of security and
comfort. An elusive security because you cannot go back. We are
all by ourselves, says Bill succinctly, when he unclips the safety
carabiner and it falls in front of feet into the sand. Some foolish
people dared to enter the slot canyons without a guide although it
is technically very demanding. The problem is the length of the
rope they might underestimate. So they might have to stop when
The water can get pretty deep in Zion Canyon. Sometimes you have to watch out you do not turn to stone in awe.
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above the ground. Each year somebody has to get rescued.
The walls still open up to the top like a V but the deeper the water
cut into the rock, the steeper and closer they get. After a while the
blue sky is only a tiny gap high above us. Tons of heavy sand stone
blocks, torn out by the water centuries ago, obstruct our way or are
wedged up high between the walls. Now it is an especially wide
way and Bill slides into a gap between block and wall until we can
only see his upper body: »You have to push your bottom against
the wall and slide down slowly until you can push your feet against
»These canyons are special places where you experience
nature‘s power in a very special way. Each one feels like a
spiritual experience.«
Is it only light or a divine revelation?
the wall«, he explains with an exhausted look on his face. Our tailbones
will thank us tonight, at least Edward Abbey would be proud
of us – if he was still alive. Those are my trains of thought while I
hang in the gap, scraping my skin, blood begins to run and my feet
cannot find the opposite wall. Bill asks: »How many words for bottom
are there in German?« Po, Arsch, Hintern… We try to think of
all the different versions while I somehow manage to slide down –
Bill and Lanell repeat all the words like parrots. Even our laughter
sounds lost in reverie in this own world. The Slot Canyon becomes
Short life in solitude and poetry
When Everett Ruess disappeared
in Utah in 1934, he
had just turned 20. Up till
today, numerous myths and
many unsolved questions wind
around his disappearance and
his person. One thing is clear:
Ruess was a talented poet,
evidenced by his poetic nature
descriptions. He left them behind
in his many letters to his
family. He also drew, created
woodcuts and painted during
his long and lonely travels through
the untouched nature of the American
West. Nowadays, he is often seen as
an earlier Jack Kerouac or a Catcher in
the Rye who turned the canyon’s rough
landscape into a setting in the search
of himself. Everett Ruess’ life is so
fascinating because he took responsibility
for his actions, his decision to
live life to the extreme. When he was
16, Ruess – born in Oakland, lived in
L.A. – set off into the wild in California.
Later on he discovered Arizona
and Utah as his main elements for his
painting. It was the start of his long
solitude travels.
Literature: »A Vagabond for Beauty«
by W.L. Rusho. It includes Ruess’
letters as well as reports on his disappearance
and the search for him.
tighter and tighter, abrasions bloodier and bloodier, the atmosphere
more intimate. It bleeds into the conversations between
climbing and abseiling: We talk about dreams, desires, recipes for
good relationships, our lifelines. Bill who was a deep-sea diver in
another life, built a hut close to the Observation Point in Zion. If
possible, he wants to stay there forever. He is only 41. Lanell always
wanted to live outside, Zion is his dream come true. A year
ago she arrived in the desert. Previously she had a fulfilling job in
trendy San Francisco. All that was nothing in comparison to
guiding Slot-Canyon Tours.
»Those canyons are special places. I gain the power of elements in
a very special manner, I feel connected to them. Each time I am in
a canyon it is a spiritual experience«, she tries to capture her feelings
in words. Bill agrees, silently nodding, his blue eyes seem to
shine of happiness. We keep walking silently, the silence talks to
us. I try to see, let my eyes wander along the filigreed vibrations of
the walls. I feel inside. Contours, textures, chasing in the sand
stone – the rings of Saturn, orbits of planets, spiral galaxies. The
whole universe, formed by sandstone. Light never hits the >
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Even a cloudburst is a grandiose event in Zion.
ground of the canyon directly but jumps from wall to wall and
slides down along the curves. And then, the sandstone lights up in
several red shades as if somebody has illuminate the rocks from
the inside. The curtain drops with that last scene. We step out into
a hot late afternoon. On our way back another spectacle: dove grey
thunder clouds gather on the horizon, rays of sunshine hit through
them like a swords down to Zion. Shortly after, the bottom of the
clouds are flamingo and salmon-coloured, the mountain peaks are
ruby-red. Bill grins: »We even got a word for that scenery: zionesk!«
The messenger of death in my neck
I am being pulled deeper and deeper into the emptiness, heat and
solitude; the relentless call of the southwest has gripped me. Or in
Everett Ruess’ words: »A few days ago I rode into the red rocks and
sandy desert again and it was like coming home again.« Innumerable
slot canyons exist in and around the Zion National Park as
well as east of it, in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
I decide for the king of the slot canyons, the Buckskin
Gulch. It is the longest of its kind, it takes two days to measure it.
The Buckskin Gulch has a similar feel to it as the Grand Canyon
with the fine difference that there is far and wide not a soul that
you can share your feelings with. Oh well, I am not totally alone.
The messenger of death is sitting in my neck: a raven. Patiently
waiting on rocks only a few metres away from me. If I happen to
bite the dust – which cannot be ruled out as there are regular
spring floods that rush through the canyon, or I could get hurt and
die of thirst – the raven will not wait any second longer but get my
eyes. The perception makes me see again. This time, my inside –
crystal clear. And suddenly I know what kind of seeing Edward
Abbey really meant.
<
Canyons of the American Southwest
Getting There
The best way to start for Utah‘s
southwest is Las Vergas. US Airways
leaves e.g. from Frankfurt to Las Vegas,
usaairways.de. The flight leaves in the
morning, an overnight stop is possible
e.g. close to the airport at Carathotel,
carat-hotel.de. Cheap rental cars at
Alamo, alamo.de.
Accommodation
Central in Las Vegas is Bellagio, bookable
via ADAC Travel, adacreisen.de.
Recommendable is the Cable Mountain
Lodge in Springdale, it’s on the border
to ZION NP so it is only a few steps
to the park and the shuttle buses.
cablemountainlodge.com.
Canyoning and Slot-Canyon-Hiking
Zion Adventure Company is also located
in Springdale. You can book tours or
borrow equipment, zionadventures.com.
Find an overview of the Slot Canyons
and its equipment demands on
americansouthwest.net/slot_canyons.
Salt Lake City
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1. Zion NP
2. Bryce Canyon NP
3. Capitol Reef NP
Side trips
When you are in the area it is worth visiting
the Bryce Canyons. You can go on
slot canyon tours in the Grand Straicase
Escalante NM. Stay overnight at Bryce
Canyon Grand, brycecanyongrand.com.
Worth seeing: Capitol Reef National
Park. Accommodation at Torrey Schoolhouse
in Torrey, torreyschoolhouse.com.
Travel information Utah in Germany
Visitor Information Centre Utah,
Neumarkt 33, 50667 Cologne, phone
+49 2 21/233 64 06, goutah.de and
atozion.com.
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Preview: Globetrotter’s Highlights in Autumn
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consequences of the climate change in its exhibition »Arktische Spirale«
starting 1 September. On 27 September, Sina Muster holds a presentation
on her research in Canada. Information: arktischespirale.de.
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Hiking and Trekking Trade Fair
Saving up for TourNatur
Globetrotter takes part in Düsseldorf’s
TourNatur (31 August – 2 September), offering
many products at attractive trade-fair prices
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Information: tournatur.com.
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