Saturday climbing again. This time with pro-photographer/carpenter Gummi. (Should get some lessons from him on hammering…pitons) The climbing was sweet, the pics even better. See here the result. (Later more)
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Iceland part deux
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Sólheimajökull
Went for a day of overhanging-glacier-ice-climbing with Gummi and Siggi. I tested my brand new Nomic and Ergo axes… Gummi says: “fór í svakalega töff klifur í dag í Sólhimajökli með Marianne og Fletcher Christian. Tokum fult af myndum og videoum sem byrtast. þessar axir vá þvílikar græjur vá” And it was so sweet! Best …
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Holland – France – Iceland – Holland – Austria
Jep, I’m travelling quite a bit these days. First working in France, now holidays in Iceland and then a competition in Austria. As my internet connection is pretty bad and unreliable, I just type this as a little message and try to upload just a couple pics. No real ice/mixed climbing yet. But I’ll be …
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Stéphanie
Fellow iceclimber and pro photographer Lukasz Warzecha made a little documentary about Stéphanie Maureau: iceclimber, sportsclimber, alpinist and aspirant mountain guide. Inspiring!
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Iceland’s financial crisis
I used to live in Iceland for a couple years. Exactly in the time that the Icelandic bank system collapsed. I read and speak Icelandic and so I read the free newspaper (Frettabladid) every day and regularly read one of the other newspapers as well. (Morgunbladid) I was alway surprised by the lack of information …
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Ready for the winter!?
New line of Petzl Charlet ice tools – QUARK NOMIC ERGO from Petzl-sport on Vimeo.
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Adventure racing
Some people do more then just climbing… Like Wodi and his team. (Team Falke sportswear with Fokko Hoeksma, Ton van Os, Sophia van der Linden and Wouter-Dirk Huitzing) They’re taking part now in the World Championship Adventure Racing. At the moment they’re not ‘number one’ but I just find it pretty hard-core just taking part …
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What I do besides climbing…teaching more climbing
My mum is PE teacher (she just celebrated her 40th anniversary as teacher, waauw!) and she invited me to give some climbing lessons in her gym. In return I get free food in Hotel-Mamma. I was proud having the kids to learn the belay steps, figure-of-eight knot and more in just one hour per group! …
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Lead Climb-off Rock Steady
As I’m working in climbing gym Rock Steady, I was one of the four putting up the routes for the climb-off of this weekend. The climb-off is a small competition to give people a last chance to qualify for the Dutch Leadclimbing Championships. So, the routes had to be quite hard, quite proper and fair. …
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