[Ferdi in his office at Columbia.]

[Ferdi and Thanh from Johns Hopkins on the Mississippi River at the Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment (FAME) conference.]

[Team 842a: Greg Landel, Min-Hao Wu, Ferdi Hellweger and Kobi Abayomi. May 2003. Good Luck Min-Hao!]

[Ferdi at "the Center".]

[Laser Sailing 10/28/01. Tight action at the windward mark. Blue Hull = Ferdi]

[Laser Sailing 10/28/01. What a day for sailing. 118948 = Ferdi]

[Laser Sailing 10/28/01. AKA Drag Race to the leward mark. Blue Hull = Ferdi]

[Uhuru (Freedom) Peak. Kilimanjaro. February 2001. We made it. Check out my brother Andy (blue coat). He has altitude sickness, totally fried, doesn't even know he is there, well almost...]

[Mom (Barbara), husband (Franz) and guide climbing Kilimanjaro at around 1 AM.]

[Team Brother Love (TBL). Thats after climbing the peak. Don't we look fresh and full of energy. Who cares, they had beer at base camp.]

[Another shot of me and mom at base camp.]

[The team.]

[So cool! Sailing in Long Island Sound during a snow storm. I am the blue boat with sail number 118943. Check out the guy behind me 'tea-bagging' in the water.]

[Me (left) and my brother Andreas (right) during the Arctic Circle Race (ACR) in 1999.]

[My brother Maxi (left), my dad Sebastian (center) and me (right) in the Alps for my dads second wedding in 1995. Note the Texas hat on my dad.]

[Camping on the beach in Corpus Christi, Texas. Nice truck.]

[My mom's husband Franz (left), my mom Barbara (center) and me (right) after a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico in 1996. Note that due to the size of my catch I need two hands to hold it up. Franz only needs one hand because his fish are smaller.]

[Me (left), my dad Sebastian (center) and his wife Edelgart (right) at the Iguana Grill on Lake Travis, Texas. A Texas engineer will notice (based on the water level) that this is a drought year.]

[Me (left), my dad Sebastian (center) and my brother Andreas (right) at the mouth of the Weser River in Bremerhaven, Germany.]