2009-07-28

The mercy of god.... kept us from being hit by lightning.


Yesterday evening Michael walked until Oberalppass with Pal.

Approximately 100m before the safe pass summit the incredible happened. One might have noticed that there was some thunderstorm on the way but then everything happened so fast that Pal and Michael were in a real predicament. Within minutes it was raining cats and dogs and lightning came down in the mountains just next to the two of them. Happily Flo and Pal´s supporter came to help very quickly and took the two into refuge in their faraday cages....safe but very wet! Now Michael has just arrived at Furka and here he will start again after a short refreshment. He´s planning to fly through Wallis today and it would be a nice present to see Matterhorn this evening after this strenouos night.