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About Jost Kobusch
Jost Kobusch (@jostkobusch) is an Athlete creator on Instagram, also filed under Fitness & Health. The account has 46,340 followers and 762 published posts. Recent posts average 14,967 likes and 49 comments, an engagement rate of 27.16%.
With 46.3K followers, Jost Kobusch is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 708 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 65 followers per account Jost Kobusch follows. Jost Kobusch is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Jost Kobusch under Athlete, with Fitness & Health as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Jost Kobusch runs to 12 words across 4 lines. The bio tags #thereisnoplanetb. The bio mentions @hepsolar, @blackyak_europe and @amazfitgermany. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Jost Kobusch dates from December 2024.
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762 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Jost Kobusch, 6 are videos and 4 are carousels. That mix leans toward videos. Jost Kobusch has built a substantial archive of 762 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 61 followers for each post published. Jost Kobusch also keeps 10 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 196 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include hepsportsteam, madeformissions, supported, thereisnoplanetb and everest. The captions tag #hepsportsteam, #madeformissions, #thereisnoplanetb, #jostkobusch and #everestinwinter.
It’s cold. It’s uncomfortable. And it pushes you to your limit.
But then you get moments like this.
And for that… yes, it’s worth it.
⌛️231 days until the next push on Everest.
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My first 8000er. And one of the hardest.
At the time, the mountain carried 33% fatality rate. Weather was unstable, the pressure to move in a narrow summit window high. Like many others, I pushed.
I remember being above 7,000 meters, completely exhausted, sleep-deprived, feeling the altitude every step. I fell asleep while walking, lost balance, woke up just in time to catch myself.
It was a different world for me back then.
I believed that reaching that summit meant I had “made it.” That I'd proven something. I don’t believe in that anymore.
You never really prove yourself. Even if you think you did.
After Annapurna I, the real questions started:
How can I go further?
How can I be truly alone?
I climbed without oxygen and support, but there were still other climbers on the mountain. I started searching for something wilder. Cleaner. More uncertain.
That search led me to remote, unclimbed peaks. And eventually, to Everest in winter.
Annapurna I didn’t just change my climbing. It changed my mindset.
Before, it was: push harder, go further. “Learn or die.”
But on that mountain, I understood something fundamental. The summit isn’t the goal. Survival is.
The summit is a bonus.
That changed everything. It gave me the freedom to turn around at any point. To see every step not as a commitment to the top, but as a choice.
From that moment, not reaching the summit wasn’t failure anymore. It was learning.
That mindset became foundation for everything that followed. Especially for my Everest project.
Because the biggest challenges didn’t come before Annapurna. They came after. And still, I kept going.
There’s an illusion that once you reach a goal, you’ll arrive somewhere final. But that’s not how it works.
The goal is not the summit. The goal is who you become along the way.
I feel like I’m only just becoming the alpinist who's capable of climbing Everest in the winter.
⌛️235 Days until the next push.
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The philosophy right now is simple: prioritize volume, minimize injury risk, and build steadily toward bigger goals. I’m not chasing performance on single routes, I’m building a system that can handle long efforts over time.
Most of my focus overall is still on endurance, long uphill efforts, carrying weight, moving efficiently in alpine terrain. That’s the foundation. But outdoor rock climbing plays an important role in that bigger picture. I genuinely enjoy it, and it directly connects to what’s ahead: the route on Everest includes technical rock sections as well as ice climbing. Being comfortable with sustained pump and movement on rock is part of being prepared.
To support that, I also keep a very consistent, minimal addition: four times per week I do 10 minutes of hangboard training. It’s simple, controlled work focused on building tendon strength and muscular endurance, nothing maximal, just enough to prepare the body for the season ahead.
So even in this broader endurance phase, I keep climbing a lot, always controlled, always submaximal, but consistent.
And honestly, beyond all the strategy, I just love being out on rock. That alone is reason enough to keep it in the routine.
The plan is to continue like this until July 15th, when I shift into specific acclimatization for the Pik Lenin 7134m climb in Kyrgyzstan, marking the transition into the final preparation phase for the Everest winter expedition.
As one of my partners CLEVO offers you 10% off and supports my upcoming Everest expedition additionally for each purchase.
Just use my discount code: CLEVO10967 on their website
⌛️236 Days until the next push on Everest.
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#Everest
Different load & different demands compared to winter climbing on ice tools.
So right now, it’s all about rebuilding tendon strength and finger resilience. No chasing quick gains, no ego climbs. Because progress doesn’t come from a couple of big sends, it comes from consistency and staying injury-free.
If you rush it, you might climb one or two hard routes… and then spend the rest of the season managing pain. I’d rather build steadily, week after week, so that in a month or two, I’m actually ready to perform.
Lately, I’ve been adding simple but effective sessions: Pilates ball work (75cm), big wooden holds, straight arms, controlled loading. Nothing extreme, just enough to wake everything back up.
10 minutes, 4x a week.
You can feel the pump building, the base coming back.
Climbing sessions are back to 3–4 times a week now, building towards leaving to Kyrgyzstan on 15th of July and the start of the Everest acclimatization phase.
Patience now. Performance later.
As one of my partners CLEVO offers you 10% off and supports my upcoming Everest expedition additionally for each purchase.
Just use my discount code: CLEVO10967 on their website
⌛️238 Days until the next push on Everest.
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#hepsportsteam #thereisnoplanetb
#madeformissions
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#EverestInWinter #JostKobusch
From losing his legs in Afghanistan to overturning a discriminatory ban in the Nepal Supreme Court, Hari’s journey to the 7 Summits is great example of resilience. We explore why the mental climb is always steeper than the physical one in my latest YouTube episode.
While walking, I was also putting the new overboot prototypes to the test. Every detail counts when prepping for a winter solo ❄️
🎬 Episode 17 "The Man Who Changed Everest Laws" is now online on YouTube.
⌛️240 Days until the next push on Everest.
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#madeformissions
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Hari doesn’t inspire me because he climbs the highest mountains in the world without legs. He inspires me because of who he is as a person.
Hari joined the British Army via the Royal Gurkha Rifles when he was 19. He served across five continents, doing training and operations for the British Army. His roles included Combat Medic, Sniper, and Covert Surveillance, amongst other things.
While he was serving with the British Army in Afghanistan in 2010, Hari stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED). Ultimately, he lost his legs, both above the knee, and sustained a variety of other injuries.
Since his injuries, Hari has tried a variety of sports and adventures. Golf, skiing, skydiving, kayaking, rock climbing... He has also played wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball.
After summiting Mera Peak (6476m) in 2017 Hari’s goal, and plan, was to climb Mount Everest (8,848m). But in 2017, Nepal banned solo, blind, and double amputee climbers from climbing Mount Everest.
Hari was already planning to climb the mountain when the news broke. He called out the ban as discriminatory and was heavily involved in campaigning and fighting it.
In 2018, after a collective effort from Hari, disability organisations and other people, the Supreme Court of Nepal overturned the ban.
In May 2023, Hari Budha Magar achieved his goal. He became the first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest.
His ultimate goal was to climb all 7 of the tallest peaks in the world. He achieved that in January 2026.
By doing so, Hari became the first ever double above-knee amputee to summit the tallest mountains in each continent 💪🏼🏔
⌛️242 Days until the next push on Everest.
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#hepsportsteam #thereisnoplanetb
#madeformissions
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I had moved from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. I knew I wasn’t ready, and I was genuinely intimidated by the scale of the project.
Over the years, through consistent hard work, I was able to transform that into conscious competence, by showing up for training, doing the work, and steadily improving.
Eventually, that led to setting a new benchmark on the route. Last year I climbed in an unprecedented style: alpine style -> reaching an altitude on the West Ridge of Everest in winter that no one had achieved before. Not even with support teams, fixed lines, or Sherpas.
I went alone.
And yes, I’m still far from the summit. But I’m also very far from that earlier feeling of not being capable of this climb.
That’s what makes my last attempt so meaningful to me.
⌛️244 Days until the next push on Everest.
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#madeformissions
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On Friday I decided that I would go above 7500m - an inner goal that I had set for myself as I wanted to see how effective I could move with a minimalistic approach.
When I reached my old high point from 2020 at 7366m the sun was already setting but I prefer to start a bit late so that I don’t freeze my toes off in the morning - a warmed up body moves way better, even when it’s already night.
I kept following the ridge until my watch pointed out 7537m - that’s when I decided that I had achieved my goal in going higher on the west ridge in winter than anybody before me.
I returned to my tent at 6800m quickly after. The route worked really well but is exposed to the strong winds…
To me it doesn’t matter how the team achieved 7500m in 1984 or how many high altitude porters they had and what kind of infrastructure they used - I have even seen pictures of a cable car installation to get gear up to Lho La to 6100m.
I have my own standards and measure myself according to them. For me this project is a puzzle to solve and I know I made one tiny step further into the unknown.
I’m very happy to learn that an alpine style solo attempt has chances and learned A LOT about the strategy I will need to implement to be able to reach the summit in this style ✨
Follow the expedition via my ZOLEO 3D live tracking - link in bio!
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#madeformissions
#zoleolifeeurope
#jostgoforit
Same as with section one -> Afterwards I ascent the rope with my climbing equipment. On top of this is my camp at about 5700m 🙌
Follow the Everest winter expedition 2024/25 via my ZOLEO 3D live tracking - link in bio!
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#madeformissions
#zoleolifeeurope
#jostgoforit #everestbasecamp
Headwear by #thereisnoplanetb 🌎
#blackyak_global #madeformissions #hepglobal #hepsportsteam
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Jost Kobusch's engagement rate on Instagram is 27.16%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 4 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 305 to 1, with 14,967 likes and 49 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Jost Kobusch (@jostkobusch) is an Athlete creator on Instagram, also filed under Fitness & Health. Jost Kobusch is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Jost Kobusch runs to 12 words across 4 lines.
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Jost Kobusch has 46,340 followers on Instagram (46.3K). Set against 708 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 65 followers per account Jost Kobusch follows. Jost Kobusch has built a substantial archive of 762 posts.
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Jost Kobusch's engagement rate on Instagram is 27.16%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 4 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 305 to 1, with 14,967 likes and 49 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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