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- Land & Sea Explorations
: Dr.
Reinhard made one of the first crossings
by a westerner of the Great Indian (Thar)
Desert by camel, one of the few land
crossings of Tierra del Fuego in Chile
and of the Llanagantis mountain range in
Ecuador to reach the Amazon. During more
than ten years spent in the Himalayas, he
has explored much of the Himalayan range,
including isolated regions in the Hindu
Kush, Garhwal (NW India), Mt. Kailash in
Tibet, and extensive treks through little
visited regions of Bhutan, northern
Nepal, and Sikkim. He has also undertaken
expeditions into the mountain jungles of
Peru, Ecuador, and southern Nepal, where
he found one of the world’s last
nomadic hunting and gathering tribes and
one of the world’s rarest languages.
He has been three times to Antarctica,
spent time on Robinson Crusoe Island and
is one of only a few people to manage a
landing on the islet of Sala y Gomez in
the Pacific Ocean.
- Mountain Climbing
: Dr. Reinhard first
began climbing in 1964 in the Alps,
beginning with ascents of Mount Blanc in
France, the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and
solo climbs of Jungfrau and Monch in
Switzerland. Later climbs were made in
Greece (Mt. Olympus), England and Austria
(Grossglockner, etc.). He began climbing
in the Himalayas in the mid-1970s,
including participating on the successful
1976 American Everest Expedition and a
first ascent of the South Face of Buni
Zom in the Hindu Kush of Pakistan. He has
also climbed volcanos in Mexico. Dr.
Reinhard has been actively climbing in
the Andes since 1980. Dr. Echevarria, a
historian of Andean ascents for the
American Alpine Club, has stated that Dr.
Reinhard has climbed more high altitude
peaks (over 6,000m/ca. 20,000’) than
any person.
- Scuba Diving
: He began scuba diving
in 1962 and has dived in the waters of
Baja California, Costa Rica (Cocos
Island), the Caribbean coasts and islands
(San Blas, Aruba, Bonaire, Belize,
Honduras), Antarctica, Easter Island,
Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, the Maldive
Islands, and the coasts and islands of
the western South American coast
(Galapagos, Isla Plata, Lobos de Tierra,
Pachacamac). He has also dived in lakes
in Austria, Italy, Bolivia (Lake
Titicaca), Peru, and Chile, including at
over 19,000’ in a volcanic
crater’s lake where he found a new
species of zooplankton. Much of his
diving involved underwater archaeology
(Austria, Italy, Bolivia), including
Roman shipwrecks, a Neolithic village, a
Villanovan village, and Inca &
Tiahuanaco ceremonial sites.
- Sky Diving
: Before receiving his
Ph.D., Dr. Reinhard participated in 150
jumps in Europe and the US, including in
snow, water, at night, and in large free
fall "stars" and jumps from
over 20,000.’
- River Rafting
: He has participated in
some of the first descents of Himalayan
rivers in the mid-1970’s (Trisuli,
Sun Kosi) and also the River of Thunder
(Bio Bio) in Chile.
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