Amazon for beginners

Published in: Germany’s third-largest national daily newspaperReach: 769,000 readers Download the article as PDF (German only) In the flickering light of the slowly dying campfire, the shadow of the poisonous sting on the scorpion’s tail makes it seem...

Ice training with Wim Hof in Poland

After more than 2 hours in the cold, a layer of ice has formed on the back of my neck. We warm up in the hut on Mount Sniezka before we descend again dressed. I only notice the really amazing thing the next day: nobody sneezes or coughs. No one has caught a cold! Read...

Publication in GEO SAISON

180 metres of perfection – Myanmar’s sacred concrete Buddha. There is not a single blemish to be found on the face or body of ZINATHUKA YAN AUNG CHANTHA, the world’s largest reclining Buddha. He is around 24 years old, 180 metres long, 34 metres high, accessible from...

Burma photo show on GEO.de

On the left the GEO issue with the piece on the Burma photo show, on the right the screenshot of the show on Geo.de/burma It’s sometime in 2006. A few months ago I came back from my second trip to Burma. It was exhausting – but incredibly fulfilling. I wanted to make...