On the 12th of May 2019, Favre Leuba is launching an auction in Geneva for our ground-breaking Raider Bivouac 9000. The actual summit watch from Adrian Ballinger’s record-setting 2018 ascent will be up for auction. 100% of all proceeds go towards supporting the Khumbu Climbing Centre co-founded by Jenni Lowe-Anker and Conrad Anker in Phortse, […]
K2 – The One That Should Have Got Away
September 18, 2018
K2, The Savage Mountain, is the second tallest mountain in the world. While slightly less tall than Mt. Everest, it is also considered a lot more difficult. The mountain is much steeper, requires thousands of meters of technical rock and ice climbing by even its easiest route, is subject to the region’s notoriously bad weather, […]
Everest – It's The Dream
June 3, 2018
For so many climbers, stories of epic adventures on Everest are what begin a passion for mountaineering and climbing. This is certainly true for me. After a few initial forays into hiking and rock climbing at the age of 12, I found my first Everest book – Crystal Horizon by Reinhold Messner – about the […]
Summiting Everest
May 30, 2018
You Can Plan for Everything… …but Mt. Everest is still Mt. Everest. If there is one takeaway from my eleventh season on the tallest mountain in the world, that is it. A season that seemed to be going perfectly, where the weather, the team’s strength, and my company Alpenglow Expedition’s logistics, came together for a […]