Unique insights into a desert country
Oman photo gallery
2 Min. Breathtaking desert landscapes, impressive mountain ranges, exuberant hospitality and delicious food. Oman offers it all. I ventured deep into the ‘interior’ – the 7th Hole cave on the Selmah Plateau is quite something.
No risk, no safety
How true safety is created
3 Min. Maybe you have experienced this too. Whenever you have to overcome yourself to do something unpleasant… and then actually do it… and then realise that yes, you are still alive – ok, maybe with a few scrapes or with a few laughs because you failed – then you have learned something and moved on a bit.
Avoid avoidance
Learn how to use this hidden superpower
3 Min. You have it. You hate it. You try to avoid it at all costs. It’s fear. Wait a moment, please. Don’t just click away. You might think: ‘Oh no, not now, not with me.’ That’s totally ok – that’s just your well-programmed reaction. But you do not learn anything. You just nurture your fear – instead of dissolving it – and becoming a better person. Allow me a few minutes to explain along 3 points: How can you use fear as an almost inexhaustible source of power.
Table Mountain Expedition
My life’s dream destination
29 Min. Scientists called Venezuela’s Salto Angel waterfall the eighth wonder of the world. The dreamlike, yet mystical Table Mountains inspired James Cameron for his film Avatar. And I finally fulfilled my long-cherished No. 1 travel dream on my fourth attempt: a trip to what I consider the most spectacular landscape in the world.
Pure inspiration
My new media kit 2023
< 1 Min. In this brand new 31-page media kit, I show you my work as an adventure journalist and speaker: Expeditions, travels, challenges – everything that excites me. Let yourself be inspired.
Table Mountain Expedition
Venezuela photo gallery
2 Min. Scientists called Venezuela’s Salto Angel waterfall the eighth wonder of the world. The dreamlike, yet mystical table mountains inspired James Cameron for his film Avatar. And I finally fulfilled my long-cherished No. 1 travel dream on my fourth attempt: a trip to what I consider the most spectacular landscape in the world.
Of means goals and life goals
Can you make a living from it?
2 Min. “Can you make a living from it?”
I get this question more often when it comes to my travels and publications (like this one).
“I don’t want to live without it.”
… I then answer.
Black Friday gift
My best investment advice for life
2 Min. Here’s nothing less than my best investment advice for life. No scam, click bait, I mean it. It’s not shares, funds, real estate, valuables, crypto, NFTs etc.
It’s experiences.
Food for thought
Adventure is the salt in your life-soup
2 Min. Adventure is like salt in the soup of life. It adds flavour.
Metaverse
Panelist at the TRILUX Roundtable on Human Performance
3 Min. To be there when history is being made. Today I had this opportunity as a panelist at the first hybrid roundtable of the lighting industry in the Metaverse and simultaneously in the Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg.
Interview with volcanologist
“At some point La Réunion will disappear”
5 Min. During my trip to La Réunion, I spoke with Philippe Kowalski, the deputy director of the volcano observatory at Piton de la Fournaise.
“Fear is not an enemy. Fear is a mentor.”
Talk at Leaders Network in Hamburg
3 Min. Intense conversations, appreciative exchange, stimulating ideas – these were the hallmarks of the evening at Leaders Network, which I kicked off with my keynote address ‘Into the Unknown’.