Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2 sucks, as we experienced ourselves recently! It is best to avoid getting it if you can.
When a close family member first contracted it in late 2021/early 2022 despite being triply vaccinated, we were extremely anxious and worried. One factor contributing to …
more ...This is a list of major peaks and ridges in the UK that are of particular interest for mountaineering, scrambling or rock climbing. I have marked the ones which I have climbed and I provide photos and GPS measurements of their summits, where they could be acquired.
In the following, I have assembled a list of all major and some minor peaks in Australia, ordered by state. I give a short description, show a photo or two and list the official elevation. Besides, I provide the coordinates and altitudes that I measured using a GPS device when …
more ...Similarly to my lists of peaks of Australia and peaks and ridges of the UK, here is a list of summits of Spain.
Andalusia | Canary Islands | Catalonia | Changes
Highest mountain of continental Spain, in the Sierra Nevada.
Own measurement: N37° 03.200 W003° 18.693, 3475 …
more ...I have made a few technical changes to the blog and the website over the last few days. The most visible ones are that the access to the website is encrypted by default now, i.e. you will see in the address bar that the URL starts with https and …
more ...Over the last few days, I have played around with ways to project three dimensional GPS track data onto photographs. My primary motivation was to use GPS track data that I had recorded on one of our recent scrambles to visualise the route that we had taken across a mountain …
more ...When I first started rock climbing in Australia back in 2013, there was a bit of unfamiliarity with the names of tools and techniques that I had used for many years in my home country, but of which I knew only their German names. As a result, I often had …
more ...Over the last few weeks, I have done a general cleanup of the blog. It mostly dealt with layout changes and improvements to the way content is presented. The aim was to make it easier to discover all the content, to browse and to read it.
For example, I have …
more ...Personal locator beacons (PLBs) are satellite devices that transmit a distress signal to search and rescue organisations once they are activated. Because they transmit the signal via satellites, they can be used in remote locations, where no cell phone access is available. Here I explain how they operate and why …
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