Presentation: 21st century Expedition – a short journey into the unknown
Expedition im 21. Jahrhundert – kleine Reise ins Unbekannte
Today, it is an integral part of tour planning to look at precise route descriptions on the Internet and often even find current experience reports. This makes the tour easier, but less adventurous. Spectacular time records and fewer first ascents are now making headlines. And yet they still exist, these unknown mountain ranges with untouched mountain peaks. Yannick Walo was a member of a Nepal expedition organized by the Academic Alpine Club of Zurich in 2022 and explains how preparation is possible without tour reports and without suitable maps, what a successful first ascent feels like, and everything else that is part of an expedition in the 21st century.
Yannick Walo, born in 1991, studies environmental sciences at ETH Zurich and works part-time as an auditor in the financial industry. Even while studying behavioral economics, he was always drawn to the mountains, whether in the winter as a ski lift hanger or in the summer as a temporary worker on a farm in Graubünden. Since the first spaghetti tour in August 2015, he has been enthusiastic about mountaineering and was able to celebrate his alpinist highlight last year on a Nepal expedition with the Academic Alpine Club Zurich.
Yannick Walo's presentation is organized by the Zurich Central Library in cooperation with the Swiss Alpine Club SAC.
Admission free, registration required