It all started on my 11th birthday with the survival book "SOS - Survival in the Wilderness", after that nothing was the same. The longing for outdoor adventure was awakened and is still a motor that drives me today.

In 1984, I went on a three-week tramp tour through France and Spain, which took away my fear of the unknown, and less than four years later, after completing my community service in Munich, I went to Australia and Tasmania for half a year. There I hiked through the legendary Cradle-Mountain Lake-St-Clair National Park, among other places. Back in Europe, the Alps, the GR 20 on Corsica, the volcanic island of La Palma, Namibia, South Africa, various national parks in the U.S.A., the North and South Islands of New Zealand and, most recently, treks in Norway and Sweden were dream destinations for my passion for hiking.

Besides hiking, sea kayaking has become a great outdoor passion. From our weekend home on the German Baltic coast, I regularly go on micro-adventures to the Danish South Sea.