Birthday: 21.09.1970

Home: Nepal/Germany

Favorite Shred Ready helmet and color: Shaggy/Grey Matte

Describe the time you were most glad that you were wearing your helmet:
Doing a portage on a steep cliff with rope works, when a big rock (quite big in size) bounced down the wall, crushed my helmet and left me unconscious with a big gash in my head which needed to be stitched. Wonder what my head would’ve looked like without SR protection. So better keep your helmet on even while it is hot.

What person do you respect the most? Who is your hero? Respect: Rob Lesser and Jonas Noecker for kayaking and exploring big water long time back. Hero: Ernest Shakleton, an amazing leader at any kind of adventure.

Who on the Shred Ready team do you most admire and why? Tommy Hileke, lots of NRG

What movies/books/comics/TV shows, etc are you into right now? Movies: No time for Cinema Books: Beyond the last village

What are you listening to these days? John Jackson, Joe Satriani

What was the best concert you attended? AC/DC when i was 12. Lots of voltage.

What are some things that motivate you? Good music, good friends, smiles

What sports do you enjoy watching or participating in besides your main sport? Watching: Rugby, MotoX
Participating: Anything that goes in or near the water.

What's the most fun you've ever had while participating in your sport? During a longer portage on a first descent in a remote corner of Nepal I mispronounced dhunga (boat) with dhuunga (rock) while trying to explain a local villager that I am carrying a boat (something he had never seen before in his 70years of life) while he understood rock.

The conversation really got confusing; me not understanding why he didn’t believe that this would be (he understood rock) floating on the water. He obviously having his doubts that a rock would be floating (he also had never seen plastic before). The thing got cleared when another village came by who understood the Indian term for boat and then explained this to the old guy.

What's the best trip you've ever been on? In Siberia 2002, exploring new rivers, escaping bears and wolves, lugging heavy boats, kayaking hard whitewater and have everyone still with a laugh and a glass of vodka at camp after long days.

What goals are you working towards right now? Getting my kayaking better (you never stop learning on water), build up my own company, travel the world, write a book, write a new guidebook about Indian and Nepalese rivers, explore new rivers….i hope they will find some meds to keep me going for another 100 years to get it all done….

When people look at your life, how would you like to be remembered? Never stop trying to follow your dreams.

What do you view as your biggest accomplishment? My family.

What advice do you have for other people coming up in your sport? Always believe in your own first thought.

One sentence that describes your life: Chaos theory.

Duran Duran, Tear for Fears, Hall and Oates, or Cindy Lauper? Why? Cindy Lauper reminds of Madonna, reminds me of disco, reminds me of riot thus reminds me of kayaking.

Why are athlete bios always so lame? Because it is paper and not water.