“Not Nak, we’ll do just Yak.” - gallery Yak Peak

Yaks are the mammals that live at the highest altitudes in the world. They can climb up as high as 6100 m, can weigh up to 550 kg and can carry up to 100 kg of load. The Sherpas of Nepal generally call the males of the species for “Yak” and the females “Nak”.  We didn’t see any real yak yet in our life, but we did see and summit Yak Peak in British Columbia yesterday together with amstaff Magnum. On our way back we decided not to climb Nak Peak because the view was exactly the same as from Yak Peak. In Tibetan mythology, yaks are represented as the messengers of the gods living in high places, so I tried to listen to the message from Yak Peak without any luck. The view is great. I would love to go back and try to rock - climb it one day because of Yak’s stunning and solid granite surface.

ps: we had the cherry war on the summit, and I won:

I’ll post bike - photo of my new Storm tomorrow. In the meantime, I really need to share the amazing information about bamboo bikes and how we actually nowadays can grow our own bicycle. The Bamboo Bike Project is a joint project run by Craig Calfee of Calfee Design, a high tech bicycle design firm based in California and The Earth Institute at Columbia University. They are building bicycles in Read more » »

I’ve been trying for days to find different places on net which fit our website profile. Here are some other places where you can find us: National Geographic, TripFilms, TreakEarth, Google Earth Gallery, PhotoSight, Picasa Album, Youtube, Gamme, Arctic Femme. I got different tips for how to promote blog better and how to improve google rankings. In my opinion, the best way to improve is to write quality and valuable articles that people like to read. Anyways, I put gorida’s information on Technocrati, Eblogzilla, BlogCatalogs and AveBlogs, and I’ll work on links exchange and our adventure links in coming days. In the meantime, you can have a look at National Geographic’s top ten adventure stories of 2008. I enjoyed reading 6000 miles to Moscow.

picture of the day:

Magnum, ‘not much to do’

I’ll try to re - write this post in English. I already wrote this one in Norwegian, and did try to post it on
with no luck so far. Yesterdays writing was about so called mud - thinking. A friend of mine thinks that all intellectual activity in our brain under stress is so called mud – thinking which leads to madness. In other words, I am becoming mad with all the information and things we need to do before our bike trip across Norway. Does it mean that I am standing in the middle of mud - thinking? 

To forget about everything at least for three hours, we went to Mt. Seymour. I was on Mt. Seymour two times last year but never to the summit. We shot some beautiful pictures last year, and I felt I was Snow White with all white around me. Anyways, after hiking for three hours, my head was clear as never before. I wrote an application to Sparebank 1 gift fund regarding Goridas project ‘cultural photopedal’. The Norwegian in me is saying: tvi - tvi, and the Bosnian is praying to Gaia: please Gaia, release me from mud - thinking. 

Magnum went crazy yesterday when he found big icicle.