His geological researches were global in scope: He got the Tibetan variant of malaria at the First Swiss Himalaya Expedition, and thereafter a lifelong resistance.

Iran: using his field notes and relief pictures taken by the Iranian Air Force, he chose a 50x 12 km area.

Only Number 5 was successful, the largest known 'wildcat' oil gusher, North of Qom (Iran) on 26 August 1956 (3,000 m deep, 80,000 tons oil/day).

[2][3] From 1958 until 1977, he was professor of Geology at the University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, from where he carried out several researches in the Himalayas (Nepal, India and Bhutan).

Notes: the Greenland expedition included Professor Eugen Wegmann (University of Neuchâtel), Swiss geologists René Masson and Eduard Wenk.