renate belczyk - Our Trip Around the World

RenateSigridRock climbing in Mexico.Rappelling from the top of La Botella.Renate with her friend Angel.Renate on a sunny day on a mountaintop with friends.On the summit of Popocatpetl (5426 m or 17,802 feet) in the summer of 1956.Climbing on Popocatpetl.Renates climbing companions.Renate rests after a strenuous but beautiful day.The Stanley Mitchell Hut in the Little Yoho Valley of British Columbia, Canada.In Glacier National Park in western Canada.Sigrid on her way to Mount Assiniboine in May 1957.Sigrid on her way to Mount Assiniboine.Erling Stroms Halfway Hut on the way to Mount Assiniboine.Sigrid and Renate with their bicycles in Japan.Renate and Sigrid with a group of young children in Japan.Renate and Sigrid visiting the home of Yamasaki-San.Visiting the Missawa family.Sigrid and Renate in Hokkaido.Visiting with the Shozo family in Haroizuma.A newspaper clipping from the Sault Ste. Marie newspaper from March 19, 1957.A newspaper clipping from a Japanese newspaper showing the girls on their bicycles.A photograph from a Japanese newspaper showing the girls on their new motor scooters.Sigrid and Renate repairing their bicycles in Japan. Due to the unpaved and neglected roads in the country the girls were constantly working on their bikes.The girls with their new motor scooters.The girls in their little tent. Most of the time Sigrid and Renate camped.The girls gassing up their motor scooters in India.A beautiful woman in Nepal.A celebration in Kathmandu.Sepp Dubach, the Swiss cheese maker, carries his skis in the Lang Tang region of the Nepalese Himalayas. In the upper left of the photo you can see Mount Everest.Inside a house in the mountains of Nepal.Sepp Dubach surrounded by his Nepalese friends.