Table of Contents

1     The backpack
2     An existential decision
3     First years of life in Beirut 
4     Bern and World War II
5     La Paz: Snowcapped mountains and poverty in Bolivia
6     Lima: Upper class life in Perú
7     Alone to highschool in Switzerland
8     University and army service
9     From Zermatt to Kathmandu
10   On foot from Kathmandu to Everest North Col
11   Break-off and Retreat
12   Illegality
13   A Swiss farming village
14   Arviat: Inuit village in Canada
15    Killiniq: Another Inuit village in Canada
16   Return to Perú and Bolivia
17   Army service and marriage
18   To Perú with my family
19   Pangnirtung on Baffinland, Canada
20   A Swiss Mountain School
21   Development work in Nepal and Honduras
22   Bern: family life and loneliness in my own home
23   Tourism in Rongbuk and last reunion with Everest team
24   Verena and my final return to Switzerland
25   How ideas influence language
26   Homage to important persons of my life
27   My thoughts in the evening of life

246 pages / Paperback Format 21.6/14/1.3 cm or e-Book / 66 pictures b&w