Climbing is a kind of profession, commitment, technique, fitness, life-goal, lifestyle, feeling-you-can’t-describe-to-your-mother-unless-she’s-a-climber…and most of all it’s is basically all about fun. Now, we always grade climbs. It’s a hard 5.10, easy 5.13a, a classic 6c… But how do you compare that all, not everybody can climb 6c, but it doesn’t mean they’re less of a …
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The fun scale
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Iceland
Back home again, but not much time to write. I’m completely broke so it’s time to work after 2months of full time climbing in crappy Winter conditions… But hey, it was fun! And…check out my new ‘for sale‘ page, as I have quite some things for sale :) Here part 2. of the Iceland-video’s. Parrt …
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iceland part 1
finally good weather today so no talking for now we go climbing!!
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Iceland
After quite some days of +3˚C and rain we finally get into the cold. We’re now in Akureyri (up North) heading for Kaldakinn and we’ll hopefully climb some real ice today and the next days! …and of course a little video :)
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Busteni adventures 4
Finally, internet again thanks to Stephanie, who gave us the key to her room. Enough to write some e-mails and get some pictures online. The qualifications long behind us, even the semi-finals were already yesterday. Just the finals left, but not for me… (Here the up-to-date info and livestream from the event) This was our …
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Busteni adventures 3
Day three in Romania. And still no climbing. I gradually start to get trouble with my addiction (climbing) as I haven’t climbed for 5 days now… Hereby I intend to feed my addiction on another way: by being online all day on the slug-slow Romanian internet. I can tell you: it doesn’t work… This evening …
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Busteni adventures 2
What a day, again. We figured that the e-mail from Alex was not correct…So we’re having quite some stress again, rebooking flights, booking a hotel, money issues… We decided to go for a stroll and landed at the climbing structure. Located in a ski-resort. There we spoke to some people who told us the competition …
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Busteni adventures
There we are, it’s early in the morning but all Romanians are already awake, so I couldn’t sleep any longer…as the public kitchen is next to our bedroom… Two days ago we got a rental car and drove to Dortmund, almost in once. Around 22:30 we really had to stop as we were both too …
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Rabenstein and a car breakdown
Travelling for a month now, and the only thing we do is climb! Life is good. Except when your house suddenly breaks down. In our case our house is our van, our bed, our kitchen, our…everything. We already took out the axle in the middle of the night, tried to repair some other things, but …
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