Schliersee, sunday, 20-12-2009

Some picures taken this morning in the surroundings of the lake in the bavarian village of Schliersee, some 50 km to the south of Munich. After a night with freezing temperature, the early sunlight is bathing the shores and the iced reed canes. Almost an other-worldly atmosphere...

Ethiopia: Hiking tours on historic routes in the Semien Mountains

Coming soon: "Trekking im äthiopischen Hochland. Durchs Kinderzimmer der Menschheit", Panorama Nr. 01/2010 (Magazine of the German Alpine Society). The pictures illustrate a reportage on a trek through the Semien Mountains around Ras Dashen, the highest peak in Ethiopia and on historic routes in and around the royal city of Gondar...