FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

the fish-tailed one (satisshroff, freiburg) your eyes never tire of watching the different moods of the fish-tailed one in pokhara. at dawn, noon and dusk. this majestic peak, this sacred mountainof the gurung folk, who live below it and revere this towering peak.  no foreign boots are allowed to trample this path, and climb to the peak. climbers have respected this wish of the gurung folk. but the khumbu sherpas, who are lured by dollars, offer incense sticks and tormas, to please, bribe and pacify the gods. tourism dictates and the locals follow. enabling global climbers to trudge over sacred mountains. no, these moneyed people don't worship the mountains, they worship their egos. climbing is a conversation piece: look I climbed everest, it's on youtube and facebook. i made it to the top of the world. ICH-ICH-ICH. I did it. others who weren't so lucky, will turn up in a moraine, years later as stiff corpses.

Ueli Steck: was a fascinating Swiss climber from Basle (near Freiburg) and now he lives no more. He was known for his daredevil speed-climbing in the Alps and the Himalayas, and had a row with Sherpas while climbing a few years back.Ueli was a blogger, climber and an inspiration for young climbers throughout the world. The world of high-altitude climbing will miss him. May his Bergsteiger rest in peace. ---Satis Shroff The Sherpa Issue: Live and Let Die on the Death-Zone (Satis Shroff) Can you imagine over a hundred Sherpas throwing stones and threatening climbers from abroad? Even the Swiss climber admits that the deep animosity between the tourist-climbers and the Sherpas was more of a behavioural nature, and a longstanding one at that. What made the normally peaceful Sherpas threaten the visitor from abroad with ice-picks? Was it a deadly faux pas that brought the wrath of the Sherpas? The three foreigners wanted to climb the Lhotse’s flank up Camp 3 to...

HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) I stay in my tent Dream of cherry blossoms And a blonde in kimono. * * * Lights flicker in Mahabharat mountains The air smells of rhododendrons The splendour of the Himalayas. * * *  HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) The fishtailed one appears Gleaming in silvery moonshine Mirrored on placid Phewa lake. * * * Winter is here The magic of snowy landscape Out with the snowboots.   * * * Snowflakes falling from Heaven Frau Holle is dusting blankets Gott sei Dank my heater works * * * Clouds waltz in the sky Men are out to conquer The holy Himalayan peaks. * * * HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) Sudden monsoon rain Soaks the mountainside A landslide causes screams of agony. * * * Baptism of monsoon A landslide washed the road away Groping and cursing uphill as a child. * * * The large ice chunks leap Crash upon the fragile tents The base camp's a crevice. * * * Snow in my tent ...

HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) I stay in my tent Dream of cherry blossoms And a blonde in kimono. * * * Lights flicker in Mahabharat mountains The air smells of rhododendrons The splendour of the Himalayas. * * *  I stay in my tent Dream of cherry blossoms And a blonde in kimono. * * * HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) The fishtailed one appears Gleaming in silvery moonshine Mirrored on placid Phewa lake. * * * Winter is here The magic of snowy landscape Out with the snowboots.   * * * Snowflakes falling from Heaven Frau Holle is dusting blankets Gott sei Dank my heater works * * * Clouds waltz in the sky Men are out to conquer The holy Himalayan peaks. * * * HIMALAYA MICROPOEMS (Satis Shroff) Sudden monsoon rain Soaks the mountainside A landslide causes screams of agony. * * * Baptism of monsoon A landslide washed the road away Groping and cursing uphill as a child. * * * The large ice chunks leap C...