Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions

16/04/2026

End of an era...

Just received the sad news that yesterday Rudolph Kuper departed towards the west for the last time. It was a privilege to have been able to call him a friend and mentor, his immense knowledge and sound advice will be sorely missed.

(photo by Stefan Kröpelin, taken on our very first meeting in Poznan in 2003)

30/03/2026

Back from an outstanding two week trek on the Tassili n'Ajjer (Tamrit - Sefar areas), many of Lhote's "lost" sites relocated, plus we found an astonishing number of undocumented sites, some right next to the major known ones.

01/03/2026

The account of both parts of our October 2025 Tassili n'Ajjer trip is now ready and online. On this expedition we have managed to re-locate a number of "lost" scenes recorded by the various Lhote missions, plus we also found a few undocumented sites: https://fjexpeditions.com/expeditions/past/tassili25/tassili25.htm

24/02/2026

At the Rock Art of the Eastern Sahara session of the 2018 IFRAO conference at Valcamonica I gave a presentation on the latest results of the Jebel Uweinat rock art survey. After some discussion with the session chairs it was agreed that the publication will provide a full overview of all rock art research done at Jebel Uweinat and the surrounding massifs since the early 2000s, to be co-authored with all those who collaborated on this immense two-decade project. It was a long wait, but the publication is finally out:

Jebel Uweinat remains to this day one of the remotest terrestrial spots on the globe, in the centre of the hyperarid Libyan Desert (Eastern Sahara). Between its discovery in 1923 and the Second World War, about a dozen expeditions reached the

14/02/2026

With the mid-winter doldrums I managed to complete the account of the Tibesti Mountains expedition while the memories were still fresh. One of our key objectives was to find and see some sites missed on our first trip 12 years ago, and to search the area where in 2014 we found a splendid site with paintings, the only one known from the central Tibesti. We did find a few new sites, though the area was not as rich as hoped. As an added bonus, we got to see the Kozen valley, where we also made a few new finds:
https://fjexpeditions.com/expeditions/past/tibesti26/tibesti26.htm

31/01/2026

Just returned from a splendid but rather tough three week expedition to the Tibesti Mountains. We made a couple of nice new finds, trip account will be in the works soon.

04/01/2026

I have updated the planned expeditions for 2026-27, there is a new Tassili expedition announced for October '26. Note that the upcoming Namibia & Zimbabwe trips are almost full, if you are contemplating either please contact me asap!
https://fjexpeditions.com/expeditions/plans/plans.htm

04/01/2026

With some peace and quiet over the Holidays, I had the time to complete the long overdue account of our October 2024 expedition to the Tassili n'Ajjer:
https://fjexpeditions.com/expeditions/past/tassili24/tassili24.htm

22/12/2025

With the year slowly coming to an end, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas & a happy, successful New Year!
Please check out the website for our 2025 exploits and forthcoming plans for 2026/27 (https://www.fjexpeditions.com). There will be some further updates after the Holidays.

29/11/2025

In-between travels I finally had some peace and quiet to work on the backlog, the account of our July trip to the magnificent rock art sites of Zimbabwe in now ready and online: https://fjexpeditions.com/expeditions/past/zimbabwe25/zimbabwe25.htm

18/11/2025

Found the needle in the haystack!

In 1960 the Lhote expedition recorded a unique depiction of a Giant buffalo (Syncerus antiquus) somewhere at Rhardès Ouan Djeriouen (north of Tissoukaï). The produced copy housed at the MNHN contains no further notes of location. One of the key objectives on this last trip was to try to find it, allotting a day to search the area, a good two square kilometres. With a spell of extreme luck on a rock wall near some other known paintings I spotted two faint red smudges, which after checking with DStretch turned out to be the human figures above the buffalo, which itself was practically invisible until one knew exactly where to look.

16/11/2025

Back from a superb month on the Tassili n'Ajjer, first a nearly 3 week circuit ascending the Akba Assakao to the little visited northern areas of the classic sites, followed by a ten day trek in the central part of the plateau. Found many of the "lost" sites of Lhote, plus a number of undocumented sites. Trip account will be in the works in due course, working on the backlog.