Have you heard of the most infamous and dangerous road in the world, the “Camino de la Muerte” or, translated, the “Road of Death”? It is located in Bolivia, is a good 80 kilometers long and is described as the most dangerous road in the world. An accident on July 24, 1983, in which a bus skidded into a ravine...
The last day in Leh, sad but true. Already noticed last night: more and more shops are closing, the shutters stay down all day. Could these be the first signs that the season is coming to an end? Or like in Game of Thones – Winter is coming? The arrival of the White Walkers? …
Any Idiot can run, but it takes a special kind of Idiot to run a Marathon. Today the Leh Ultra Marathon is taking place, one of the worst things imaginable (but everything is relative, see the section after next). The Leh Ultra Marathon The start is in the Nubra Valley on the other side of the Khardung Pass at a good 4500 meters, ...
Do you ever think about a possible scenario that describes a complete collapse of the Internet? Barely. As it turns out, this sandbox game can be tested as a live experiment in Ladakh. And as a note: In his latest novel “The Second Sleep”, Thomas Harris described in great detail how the dangers of a global collapse of the Internet infrastructure...
Tomorrow we'll first go on a monastery tour. Not exactly cheap, but I'll have a driver all to myself all day, and he'll take me through the Indus Valley from one town with a monastery to the next. And then I finally want to go on a trek, to start with the so-called “baby trek”. It lasts three days, leads...
Incredible 150 meters. This is the height difference that you have to climb up the hill to the royal palace and the old castle ruins. So an incredible 150 meter difference in altitude. The dark-skinned receptionist at the hotel, probably a South Indian, has round eyes as he explains the matter to me. If you believe him, this corresponds to nothing more and nothing less than one...
The first impression after a 10-hour sleep – the headache is gone. In the morning, after a somewhat strange sleep, interrupted by unfamiliar noises from outside (are they sleepless birds? unknown animals?), I wake up with a heavy head. From my room window I hope in vain to be able to see high mountains and desert-like slopes, but...
Will it be the fulfillment of a dream? Or is it more of a nightmare? Actually, the infinity of the mountains in Nepal was originally a little closer to me, but postponed is not lifted. I'm on my way east, once again towards India, but this time to the north. To Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. The weather …