previous expedition: The team shows proudly the
"Sachsenfahne" (for the extension click on the photo).
Our expedition has already caused attention in the public, in the broadcast and the
press.
The files lie in the Pdf format for downloading. You need then to have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader reader to look at this. You get the
software here. All the
articles are in German.
"Around the world"
"Krakauer of the east"
"We go to our borders ..."
"The climbers master ..."
"Two Leipziger want highly up"
"Cho Oyu - Booklet"
(PDF-file, 283 kByte)
"Eight alpinists from germany, conquer for years mountains all over the world, want
to climb this mountain."
(PDF-file, 338 kByte)
"It is May 24th, 1990. Ascension Day. Six weeks ago Reinhardt Tauchnitz was burst
with a friend to conquer one of the highest peaks and be the first DDR (east german)
citizen which has stood on an 8000 meter high mountain. Tauchnitz and Karsten Koenig also
should be the only one. Eight years later he wants to try a climb again. He wants to climb
to the top of the 8201 meters high Cho Oyu."
(PDF-file, 263 kByte)
"In April, when the Vormonsun season starts in Tibet, eight alpinists will under
Riecks leadership burst to the peak of thesixt highest mountain of the earth. "
(PDF-file, 263 kByte)
"The lowlander conquered in 1993 the 6488 meters high Mount Illimani in Bolivia. And
it shall still more highly go out. On a 8000 meter high mountain. "Eight alpinists
are planning a expedition to the Cho Oyu in 1999 ", told Ingolf Speer."
(PDF-file, 359 kByte)
"So that the Leipziger accomplish her aim and so that Leipzig this way
"worldwidely" also gets known, therefore Wolfgang Tiefensee has taken the
patronage for this to find sponsors. Wolfgang Tiefensee: "Lydia Schubert and Olaf
Rieck intend what, calculates himself for all of them which they support. I still want
however to say something else: It is the humane attitude which convinces me. We need
nothing more as the courage for the signal to set out and the claim on staying power which
can nevertheless be mated with personal modesty.""
(Wolfgang Tiefensee is the major of the city of Leipzig.)
(page 1, 178 kByte)
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(page 12, 151 kByte)
