In the early hours of Sunday morning, Hinrich Paulsen set off for Mongolia. By train to Düsseldorf Airport and then with Aeroflot via Moscow to Ulaanbaatar. In Düsseldorf, colleagues from the University of Heidelberg joined them, who had a considerable amount of excess baggage in the form of a weather station (34 kg) and two batteries (11 kg each). As of the current time (Sunday 4:00 PM), the first leg has been completed and the connecting flight departs in 2 hours.