#Schulter sehnen abriss skin

I remember Lukas calling me every night and Dr. Today after a successful passage, I like to thank Doctor Lukas Weisskopf from the Altius Clinic in Rheinfelden to make my Achilles‘ tendon stronger than before and Doctor Dirk Schaefer from the University Hospital in Basel, also a sailor, to safe my leg with his great art to recover my skin. Thanks also to our main sponsor Victorinox to stay with us. Thanks to my wife, my children, our parents, my sister, family and friends I made it through this difficult time. All we had built up over the years seemed to be falling apart. While I was lying in bed: One of the investors in the boat told us he needs his money back (1) and one of our main sponsors SGS got a new CEO, who stopped their support. It became my most challenging year not knowing if I am able to climb again. It was a nightmare for a mountain guide, who’s life so far was always outdoors climbing, sailing and cycling. The open wound did not close for several months.

#Schulter sehnen abriss skin

I flew immediately back to Switzerland where Doctor Lukas Weisskopf fixed my Achilles perfectly.Ī terrible mistake in a regional hospital after the successful surgery ended in several operations with skin drafts and therapies over 9 months. In June 2015, 12 hours before setting sail in San Diego for the Northwest Passage I ruptured my Achilles‘ tendon. My accident and the Arctic taught me a lesson: Less than a year ago I was in a total different situation. On this beautiful day I like to be thankful that my life changed to the positive again. I feel happy about our achievement to be the 1st sailboat through the Northwest Passage via Hecla&Fury- and Hudson Strait. ….and so we got rewarded in the morning after a stressful night with good wind and finally a blue sky and sun. We used a piece of a wire, a bulb of a flesh light and a cable tie to fix it.

After a while we found the cause: a small electric cable broke during the hard wave impact from the previous days. A handhold GPS running on 1.5V batteries is our back up. Without navigation we were sitting in the dark. There was not enough wind for the wind generators to recharge and solar panels in the dark are useless. We had to shut down the radar and navigation in bergy waters and slow down (heave to) to avoid a collision with an ice berg.

Here an example from last night:Īround midnight we recognized that the batteries have no charge. But improvisation skills and reading the signs of nature really saves lives. Gathering as much information as possible, filtering it and putting it in your planning, risk management and decision making process is a must. You just have to take it how it comes an overcome the challenges. On a voyage like this you cannot plan every detail and it is hard to predict in a fast changing environment where conditions are extreme. There were 2 paper charts with one showing recommended route and 1 without. The skipper wrote us:…“We grounded in Simpson Strait at high tide (checked with MTCS that the time was high tide). It took them 12 hours to re-float with swell & wind helping (info from Victor). They hit a shoal in the Simpson Strait on 31 August.

Thanks to Victor’s accurate tidal information it worked out perfectly for us.īut even today, you have to be alert: Of the 4 yachts sailing the NWP this year from E to W, one boat from Hong Kong had bad luck in Simpson Strait. Simpson Strait in those days, must have been a nightmare. I remember when we approached Simpson Strait on the 23rd of August, I was thinking about the whereabouts of Franklin’s HMS Terror seeing an old wrack on the beach. If HMS was found, there is also hope that somebody might find Christina’s camera on the bottom of Hudson Strait in 74 meters in approximate position of N0 W0. The M/V Bergmann was based in Cambridge Bay this summer and I had a chance to meet the owner and talk to some geo physicians who were chartering the vessel. Small M/V Bergmann found it with Inuit guide. History behind one of polar exploration’s deepest mysteries.“ Terror, has been found in pristine condition at the bottom of an Arcticīay, researchers have said, in a discovery that challenges the accepted „The long-lost ship of British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS „HMS Terror was located just NW off western approaches to Simpson Str. Expedition Report: The Arctic taught me a lesson