Credentials
Books
Broad Peak, Traum und Albtraum - Auf den Spuren von Hermann Buhls letzter Expedition
Innsbruck: Tyrolia-Verlag, 2007
Mount Everest-Spurensuche in eisigen Höhen
(Author: Maja Nielsen, Fachliche Beratung: Jochen Hemmleb)
Hildesheim: Gerstenberg-Verlag, 2006
Everest - Göttinmutter der Erde (German language)
Zürich: AS-Verlag, 2002
Detectives on Everest - The 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition
(with E.R. Simonson),
Seattle (USA): The Mountaineers Books, 2002
Ghosts of Everest - The Search for Mallory & Irvine
(with L.A. Johnson, E.R. Simonson and W.E. Nothdurft)
Seattle (USA): The Mountaineers Books, 1999
Magazine Articles
"Wie müde darf ein Held sein?" (On the trails of history on Broad Peak or: the myth of Hermann Buhl),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21.6.2007
"Alpinismus reloaded" (revisionism in mountaineering history),
Berge, Nr. 5/2007
"50 Jahre Broad Peak" (50th anniversary of Broad Peak's first ascent),
DAV Panorama, 4/2007
"Ciao Markus" (In Memoriam Markus Kronthaler),
Alpin, 4/2007
"Broad Peak 1957/2007" Ein Gipfel, zwei Zeiten, zwei Reisen,
Salzburger Alpenvereinsnachrichten, 53, 205 (April-Juni 2007)
and Innsbruck Alpin, 3/2007
"John Harlins größtes Kunstwerk" (40th anniversary of Eigerwand direttissima)
Berge, Nr. 5/2006
"Deadly Ascent" (Reinhold Messner and the controversy about Nanga Parbat 1970)
Research for article by P. Gillman in The Sunday Times Magazine, April 25, 2004
"K2-Der Berg der Berge" (50th anniversary of K2's first ascent)
Berge (Germany), Nr. 4/2004
"Aus dem Mythos wird ein Mensch" (Mallory),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28. Mai 2003
"Nationalstolz auf höchster Ebene" (Everest, politics and nationalism),
Baseler Magazin, 21, 24. Mai 2003
"Mallory's letztes Geheimnis" (Xu Jing and the discovery of Irvine 1960),
Alpin (Germany), Mai 2003
"The English dead",
Geographical, Mai 2003
"Alpiner Ballermann am Berg der Berge" (50th anniversay of Everest's first ascent),
Berge (Germany), Nr. 3/2003
"Das höchste Fundbüro der Welt",
Alpin (Germany), November 2001
"Dem Tod von der Schippe geklaut" ((with C. Kratzer und J. Norton),
Alpin (Germany), August 2001
"Neue Expedition-Alte Rätsel" (with C. Kratzer),
Alpin (Germany), Marz 2001
"Discovery on Mount Everest" (with L.A. Johnson),
Climbing, 188, September 1999
Web Articles
Under new construction
TV productions
consultant for:
"Grab in eisigen Höhen"
(Grave in icy heights - the recovery of Markus Kronthaler's body from Broad Peak),
Pro7, January 2008
"Broad Peak 2006 - Auf den Spuren von Hermann Buhl"
(Broad Peak 2006 - On the trail of Hermann Buhl),
smac-media/BR (airdate yet to be decided)
"Fredrik Sträng och Mysteriet pa Everest" (Fredrik Sträng and the mystery on Everest)
TV 4 AB (Schweden), March 2007
"Die Marmormumie vom Mount Everest", ZDF, Januar 2000
"Welt der Wunder Spezial - Mount Everest", Pro7, November 2001
Numerous features for TV (including HR, NDR, 3Sat, Deutsche Welle TV, XXP) and radio (including NDR, Radio Bremen, DeutschlandRadio, HR, SWR, BR) about Mount Everest/Mallory & Irvine.
Some 70 lectures about Mallory & Irvine/Everest in Germany, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and USA
Museum exhibits
Consultant for "Detectives on Everest", Washington State History Museum, Tacoma (USA), 9/7/2002 - 4/6/2003
Curator (with A. Schmidt-Stegmaier) for "Detectives on Everest - Funde der Mallory- & Irvine-Suchexpedition 2001", Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin, 6/1 - 8/31/2003 - www.detectives-on-everest.de
Curator for historical section (with A. Schmidt-Stegmaier) of "Yadegar Asisis 8848 Everest 360°", Gasometer Süd-Ost, Leipzig, 5/24 - 12/31/2003 [Prolonged until 2005] - www.8848everest.de
Awards
Shortlisted for the "German Youth Literature Award" (non-fiction)
for consulting work for Spurensuche in eisigen Höhen (by Maja Nielsen)
Shortlisted for the "Boardman & Tasker Award for Mountaineering Literature" (GB): Ghosts of Everest (1999) and Detectives on Everest (2002)
The American Alpine Club rated "Ghosts of Everest" among the 52 most influential books of its first 100 years: "Four or five books describe aspects of the Mallory discovery, but this one by the expedition's originators is the most thorough in its combination of historical perspective, first hand experience, and insight. It's also beautifully presented. "(American Alpine Journal, 2002)
Italian literature award "Giuseppe Mazzotti" for Le Ombre dell' Everest (Italian edition of Ghosts of Everest)
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