After a train-road-trip we arrived in Kandersteg, Swiss.It is so great to be in between those beautiful big mountains. I get this thrill of wanting to climb them all and never leave this place!There is so much to do here. Even if you’re over 50 you can still have some fun with ski-walking (langlaufen) in …
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Kandersteg
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Daone Comp 2010
Gosh, it has been some days since the last post here. I haven’t had internet closeby and the internet is quite slow…Daone was so much fun, partying with the Russians (crazy Vodka!), speedclimbing and leadclimbing which was so impressive and motivating.The day started with the dudes doing their lead climbing. Corne did his best but …
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DAONE Icemaster [UPDATE]
NED Team IJsklimmen heeft harde leerschool tijdens World Cup Val Daone (Bron: http://www.nkbv.nl/Alpinisme/Nieuws/5584.html) Het Nederlands Team IJsklimmen heeft afgelopen weekend deelgenomen aan de UIAA World Cup Ice Climbing in Val Daone (ITA). Voor drie van de vier teamleden was dit de eerste kennismaking met een World Cup. Jurgen Mesman moest zijn deelname aan de discipline …
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“Met bijlen de hoogte in”
Dennis got a nice article in the local paper “de Kombinatie” on January 13th 2010. The article describes his recent adventures in Kirov and a bit about ice climbing itself. This is a great feat for the sports, as ice climbing is little known in Holland. Let’s hope that the next covarage will tell about good …
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Daone Ceremony
Arrived in the Hotel with Corne and just attended the extremely patriotic Italian ceremony.Bla, bla, bla in Italian, children in Italian colours, old men with Tiroler hats and feathers, fire brigade kids and adults and the local-forest-army-dudes playing some music and a procession through the little village of Daone.I have some video’s, but the connection …
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First real iceclimb in Europe mainland!
We arrived in Daone on Wednesday evening and slept next to the big competition wall. We stole some electricity and slept well, though, we felt our throats next day (cold?)The next day we wanted to try our brand new Black Diamon Fusion axes on the backside of the snow-speed-wall, but then we heard there was …
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On the road
Tuesday Dennis and me left for Italy. Really late (thanks to the brilliant Dutch train system) but we didn’t really care.We drove through Austra with a little sleep stop somewhere in Germany and a emergency stop after the Fernpass (the brakes started to complain).Dennis’ van is brilliant. With two sleeping compartments, heating, good music and …
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DAONE Icemaster Worldcup
Dennis has arrived in Val Daone some days ago. Conditions are good and he climbed a nice 300m route. Currently Dennis and the other athletes are awaiting the opening ceremony to the Icefight. Tomorrow it’s gametime! The competition will start and all climbers have to show what they’re worth yet again! More info at: http://www.daoneicemaster.it/lang/EN/homepage …
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Off to Italy!
I drove around half of the Netherlands yesterday. Picking up iceaxes (thanks Tim!), picking up a Barryvox and then iceclimbing with the dudes in the Globe. And luckily we climb for free Skabbi…We did some speed climbing with the Icelandic Hedinn axes and they actually work quite ok. Still have to get used to them …
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