Dhaulagiri

“This is the summit that I have returned to most often: four attempts to finally succeed. In 2019, when my mother was nearing the end of her life, my brother sent me a text message on the satellite phone: We have to go home. I stopped the expedition on the spot. A real helicopter race against time then began. Three days later I was at his bedside. She passed away two days later. Coming back to her was the best decision I have made in eleven years of mountaineering. She was waiting for me. This summit will remain engraved in my heart forever, because I placed some ashes of my mother there, to whom I promised to take her up there. The beginnings of true/false summit controversies. Dhaula is contentious and its true peak is often not reached.”