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Bruno Baumann Photo Journalist, Autor, Film Director
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Bruno is our specialist for buddhism, desert expeditions and for diverse documentaries, especially on Asia. On the basis of his projects, he is dedicated to producing extensive reports and is by far not only concerned with adventure but with life and troubles of local people.
Bruno Baumann, born 1955 in Leibnitz, is an award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker, whose work has earned him international recognition as an authority on the land and culture of Tibet and Central Asia.
He first made a name for himself in 1994 as the leader of the groundbreaking UNESCO expedition across the heart of the Gobi Desert. In October 2003, he blazed new trails on a "one-man expedition", becoming the first person ever to cross the Gobi's death zone alone on foot. Baumann is a pioneer in the field of desert exploration, who lives life on the edge, in pursuit of mental, spiritual, and physical adventure in the "Himalayas of Sand."
A rare breed, with the heart of a boy, the spirit of an adventurer, and the soul of a poet, Bruno is more than just an extreme adventurer. He is a master storyteller, whose ability to weave experience and fact into gripping narrative, and draw the reader into his world with a very personal style and honest emotion, has won him acclaim from critics and readers alike.
Bruno's travels have taken him to nearly every corner of the world. But the focus of his wanderlust has always been Tibet and the deserts of Asia.
In 1989, he trekked through the Taklamakan, a vast sea of sand in western China known as the dreaded "Desert of Death". Here he encountered relicts of the ancient culture of the Silk Road dating back over a thousand years.
Bruno is recognized as a foremost authority on Tibet and the Himalayan region. His book classics, The Gods Will Triumph and Mustang - The Hidden Kingdom in the Himalayas, portray not only the rich spiritual heritage of these highly advanced cultures, but also present the current political situation and its consequences.
One of his most challenging projects was the 1993 expedition into the Tibesti mountains, a region of profound isolation in northern Chad. Apart from exploring spectacular natural wonders such as giant craters and lake regions, he was also the first to successfully scale peaks in the Sahara's highest mountain range. The return journey across Sudan and Egypt turned into a dramatic desert odyssey...
In 1994, he led a team of 15 men and 30 camels on the first expedition to successfully cross the heart of the Gobi Desert on foot. Accompanied by a camera crew and reporter from the German news magazine "Der Spiegel," the expedition was conduced as an official UNESCO research project to explore the Silk Road culture.
In the fall of 1996, Bruno Baumann returned to the Gobi to make a daring attempt to cross its 300-mile heartland alone on foot. His highly publicized solo attempt ended in failure after just 4 days and 75 miles, when he ran out of water and very nearly died of thirst.
A year later, he started across the Tibet in the company of a yak caravan, crossing the Trans Himalayas and reaching the fringes of Changthang, the uninhabited steppes of northern Tibet.
In 2000, Bruno became the second man in over a century to trek across the infamous Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, when he re-created the ill-fated 1895 expedition of the famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. He uncovered startling new findings about Hedin's legendary expedition, but nearly paid for it with his life when his own caravan met with a similar disaster. His book Caravan of No Return is the definitive account of Hedin's historic expedition and Baumann's search for the truth behind the legend.
In October 2003, he made history by being the first man who crossed the sandy heart of the Gobi desert solo on foot. This one man expedition marked the ultimate step in his desert quests.
Currently, he is working on a new project called "In Search of Shangri-La". On a first reconnaissance trip in May 2004 he found the relics of the ancient Kingdom of Shang Shung, which so far has been believed to be solely legendary. He became the first man ever to raft the Sutley gorge in far western Tibet.
Bruno Baumann, born 1955 in Leibnitz, is an award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker, whose work has earned him international recognition as an authority on the land and culture of Tibet and Central Asia.
He first made a name for himself in 1994 as the leader of the groundbreaking UNESCO expedition across the heart of the Gobi Desert. In October 2003, he blazed new trails on a "one-man expedition", becoming the first person ever to cross the Gobi's death zone alone on foot. Baumann is a pioneer in the field of desert exploration, who lives life on the edge, in pursuit of mental, spiritual, and physical adventure in the "Himalayas of Sand."
A rare breed, with the heart of a boy, the spirit of an adventurer, and the soul of a poet, Bruno is more than just an extreme adventurer. He is a master storyteller, whose ability to weave experience and fact into gripping narrative, and draw the reader into his world with a very personal style and honest emotion, has won him acclaim from critics and readers alike.
Bruno's travels have taken him to nearly every corner of the world. But the focus of his wanderlust has always been Tibet and the deserts of Asia.
In 1989, he trekked through the Taklamakan, a vast sea of sand in western China known as the dreaded "Desert of Death". Here he encountered relicts of the ancient culture of the Silk Road dating back over a thousand years.
Bruno is recognized as a foremost authority on Tibet and the Himalayan region. His book classics, The Gods Will Triumph and Mustang - The Hidden Kingdom in the Himalayas, portray not only the rich spiritual heritage of these highly advanced cultures, but also present the current political situation and its consequences.
One of his most challenging projects was the 1993 expedition into the Tibesti mountains, a region of profound isolation in northern Chad. Apart from exploring spectacular natural wonders such as giant craters and lake regions, he was also the first to successfully scale peaks in the Sahara's highest mountain range. The return journey across Sudan and Egypt turned into a dramatic desert odyssey...
In 1994, he led a team of 15 men and 30 camels on the first expedition to successfully cross the heart of the Gobi Desert on foot. Accompanied by a camera crew and reporter from the German news magazine "Der Spiegel," the expedition was conduced as an official UNESCO research project to explore the Silk Road culture.
In the fall of 1996, Bruno Baumann returned to the Gobi to make a daring attempt to cross its 300-mile heartland alone on foot. His highly publicized solo attempt ended in failure after just 4 days and 75 miles, when he ran out of water and very nearly died of thirst.
A year later, he started across the Tibet in the company of a yak caravan, crossing the Trans Himalayas and reaching the fringes of Changthang, the uninhabited steppes of northern Tibet.
In 2000, Bruno became the second man in over a century to trek across the infamous Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, when he re-created the ill-fated 1895 expedition of the famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. He uncovered startling new findings about Hedin's legendary expedition, but nearly paid for it with his life when his own caravan met with a similar disaster. His book Caravan of No Return is the definitive account of Hedin's historic expedition and Baumann's search for the truth behind the legend.
In October 2003, he made history by being the first man who crossed the sandy heart of the Gobi desert solo on foot. This one man expedition marked the ultimate step in his desert quests.
Currently, he is working on a new project called "In Search of Shangri-La". On a first reconnaissance trip in May 2004 he found the relics of the ancient Kingdom of Shang Shung, which so far has been believed to be solely legendary. He became the first man ever to raft the Sutley gorge in far western Tibet.