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After a wonderful, exciting and strenuous cycling tour through Mongolia in 1996 - for which at that time we had a hard time in finding relevant information for bicycle touring - the idea of launching a website emerged. We wanted to share our experiences and information with other cyclists, hikers and mountaineers. Thus, for almost 20 years now (since November 1996), we run this site and continuously extended it to also cover trekking, mountaineering and sportive sections besides mountain bike touring in expedition style.
Our travel philosophy |
Our interest is to explore landscapes, geology and vegetation of remote regions of the world. We are especially fascinated by deserts, steppes, mountains, and the Arctics.
The mountain bike is an ideal means of traveling, allowing us to rides on small tracks as well as to cover large distances. At the same time, traveling by bicycle gives us a maximum of independence. Sometimes however, we prefer to go on foot (especially climbing mountains or trekking tours in arctic regions).
Our way of traveling is in self-organized and self-supported expedition style giving us most freedom and independence during the tour.
There are three key factors that are important for success of our way of touring: (i) good planning of trip, (ii) excellent and reliable equipment, and (iii) the right kind of nutrition during the tour. Therefore, we usually take self-made dehydrated foods with us and rely only on equipment that we consider among the best and that has in the past proven to work for us. That way, we can concentrate on the mental and physical challenges of the expedition. We have the freedom to enjoy the tour instead of worrying about problems with food and equipment.
Countries and regions visited |
Greenland
(1992, winter bike tour) |
Patagonia
(1995, bike) |
Tenerifé
Island (1996, bike) |
Mongolia
(1996, bike) |
Namibia
(1998, bike) |
Siberia
(2000, work, trekking; 2011 winter bike tour) |
Kilimanjaro
(2000, mountaineering) |
Lappland
(1997& 2000, trekking) |
Australia
(2001, bike) |
Tunisia
(2002, bike) |
Kamchatka
(2002, bike; 2004, 2008, trekking) |
Norway
(2003, bike) |
Slovenia (2004, bike) |
Morocco
(2009, 2013 bike) |
Carpathians
(2010, 2012 bike) |
Kyrgistan
(2014, bike) |
China
/ Tibet (2005, bike; 2007, bike, mountaineering; 2008, trekking; 2009 mountaineering; 2016, bike) |
Georgia
(2015, bike) |
Bolivia
/ Chile
(2015, 2016, bike) |
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Iceland
(2017, 2018, bike) |
News
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Most recent tours:
Island in winter
Roaming the altiplano
Fat biking in South Bolivia
Roaming in Georgia
Bhutan by Bike
Winter in Kyrgistan
Lake Baikal in Winter
Public presentations
Our public multimedia shows and updates.
Books
We have published the following books (in German): More…
DVDs
A DVD version of some of our tours is available. More…
Clouds and weather
A picture gallery of spectacular clouds and weather phenomena we experienced on various tours. More…
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