2x-anders is a joint project of Barbara Hauer and Siegfried Brandstätter which includes our vision for the coming years and several goals.

Motivation

Professionally, we have been involved in many interesting projects over the last few years - well over 10 years already, but I do not want to go into detail. We have written our dissertations and completed our doctorates. Now the time has come to take a break and realize our private vision. To be honest, we wanted to set off for a longer journey years ago. However, various incidents caused delays. Of course, we could have just set off and taken a look at the beautiful landscape and various sights. BUT that is not us. We want to adventure, but we also want to succeed by using our own strength. For us, this means going out into nature as often as possible and sometimes this can be a bit more extreme. Every now and then there can be twinges and pain, but surely this is the case for everyone who puts his heart and soul into something? The most important thing is to enjoy the things we do and to stay fully motivated. This joy in what we do and our motivation allow us to achieve sportive ambitions which others can only dream of and read about. Therefore, our hikes are often approaches for climbing a route to a mountain peak which is unreachable for others. Or we simply choose a different route to a summit which allows for new views and might be more demanding.

Vision

Simply drive off, do what you enjoy and stay as long as you like at a beautiful place. Sounds nice? We agree! This explains perfectly what we are about to do on our break. For this purpose, we have customized our own vehicle, as well. At an impressive mountain with a beautiful face we just want to stop and find a route to the summit. At an ice fall where you think: “Wow, that is beautiful and impressive”, we want to unpack our ice tools and climb it. In a winter landscape, where we see a north face rising, we want to stop, approach with our touring skis and tackle the face. On a stretch of sand with turquoise-blue water we want to unpack our kites and enjoy kite surfing for as long as we like. We want to do all that in Europe, but also worldwide.