All the best in 2017!

2016 was kind of special year … the year of re-acclimatisation to “normal” life after our long trip. The year when two of our friends Ropák and Pavel Michut didn’t come back from mountains. The year half of which we spent in front of the screens of Czech TV’s editing rooms just hoping not to […]

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Up and down … this time around the Slapy

47 km on the track Epo Trail Maniacs Loosing the track for 1km in the beginning, then chasing the front positions for the next 15km, enjoying a great running weather and nice track together with Tomáš Hudec and Martin Töpfer. Around 22nd km I lost contact with Tomas for a while and cough him a […]

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News from planet Chamonix – May 2016 – part 3

A famous freeride right under the lift? That´s Mellory route from Aiguille du Midi (5.4, E4) It has similar dificulty and exposition as Maudit or Cheré kuloár, but you go straight from lift, in good conditions the technical difficulties are not so great and from skiers perspective the exposition does not seem that great. But […]

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News from planet Chamonix – May 2016 – part 2

Czech tourist: What´s the plan Mikko? Finnish machine: Let´s try Cheré. It think its the coolest line on Tacul (Mt. Blanc du Tacul). Czech tourist: Why? Finnish machine: It´s not only a couloir, its complex, technical, steep and exposed… (laugh) And it was! Hard snow snow on the top, rappel over icy rocks, perfect powder […]

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News from planet Chamonix – May 2016 – part 1

A big day in Cham! Mt.Maudit, East Face Diagonale (5.4, E4, one rappel) with the Scandinavian machines Mikko Heimonen and Jesper Petersson. Thanks for the great tour and breaking the trail guys! Mikko has been waiting for this line for years. When he showed it to me two years ago I thought I would never […]

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Ski-mountaineering project of the year

In the company of Czech climbing stars Adam Ondra and Lucka Hrozová our last year´s project One World, Two Skis was awarded as the best Czech Ski-mountaineering project of the year by the Czech Mountaineering Association. Big thank, it is honour for us! And again a big thank to all our partners who helped us […]

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Beton Ski Team calendar for 2016

Order our 2016 calendar now! Eight months of our journey – from the Czech Republic to Nepal, from the Adriatic see to the summit of Manaslu (8163 metres) – summarised in 15 pages of pictures and impressions. By buying it you contribute to the repayment of our travellers’ debt :) A big thank to Eva […]

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Blog 28 – What comes next? Nepal and Manaslu

We are approaching the big final! Two weeks in Kazakhstan are behind us. We have been busy organizing stuff (preparations for Manaslu, getting Russian Visas for the way back, getting necessary customs documents and of course backing up on OneDrive,), gaining weight (luckily Martin lost his animal hunger he had had since Afghanistan), light workout, […]

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Blog 27 – The Afghan thriller – Agent M. on the search for the Yellow Doll

The task was clear – “Don’t come back without the Doll!”. Godfather K. then continued “If you find it, for the reward one of the crows will be prepared for you for dinner – yes, one of these local enemies which ate all our milk powder when we were in the mountains”. Sadly, Godfather K. […]

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Blog 26 – Noshaq – after a good acclimatisation starting the Search

To the base camp One donkey can carry 20kg. We are taking six of them, this must be sufficient. It seems like an easy math. To the base camp’s it’s approximately 35 kilometres. In the 80th, afraid of a not very probable invasion from Pakistan in this valley on two photogenic Alpine meadows, the Mujahedeen […]

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