Monthly Archives: June 2012

  • Shopping

    It’s been years since I visited the ‘Kalverstraat’ in Amsterdam. This time the excuse was my brother: he needed some new clothing. Trousers, shoes, sweaters, t-shirts… All he has is worn out and just needs to be replaced.  The last time he went shopping was before he started his Master Industrial Design.  This week he …

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  • Presles Les cons qui s’adorent “One beautiful reversed hold”

    30º acording to the termometer in my car and i’m sure its not off. Driving to Simon’s place on friday afternoon to  make a “Alpine plan” for the weekend. “There is no way to climb anything down the vally with this heat so we have to go up.” I totally agree with Simon but even …

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  • The storm and the plastic heroes

    Today, Sunday I woke up early.Normal for my Sunday, but maybe weird for most people.This time it was not for climbing, not for running, not for the family-visits. Nope.It was for the rubbish. Or actually, against the rubbish. As ambassador of Respect the Mountains I was invited to join the first (out of 7) EnviroTracks.And …

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  • Steep climbing is like chocolate

    Céuse :) Céuse Last week I drove Dennis back to his French hometown Crolles.And I stayed for another week.Not just in Crolles :) I had a mission: get back to Céuse. Céüse, Ceüze, Ceuze, Céüse, Ce… whatever, they can’t even write it themselves. (The cliff is called Céuse, the topo says Céüse, the roadsigns say …

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  • Dent de Crolles

    The big peak rising above Crolles. The first time Marianne and me visited Crolles  we said: ” we have to climb that tooth” . The first plan to climb one of the direct lines on the big south face turnout not to be such a good idea. It wood take over 2/4 days of bigwall/ …

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  • Petzl Roc Trip 2012

    Quite some years of Petzl Roc Trips all over the world… And this is number 10! All the way to South America. Remember the China trip report?  I don’t know much yet, but as far as I know you should start booking your ticket for the best climbing event of the decade!

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  • drytooling summer style

    Yesterday me and my college Simon from Petzl went drytooling. We brought loads of “new ” tool designs to test. For me the perfect time to find out the possiblities in L’Usine. The locale DTS  spot http://www.dry-tool-styl.com/ After warming up Simon send his project “fuck me i’m DTS” a D12 After 2 shots on the D 12 …

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  • Midway

    ↵ Use original player 404 Error loading Vimeo video I came across the story and images of poor ‘plastic birds’ over a year ago.Later I saw a trailer about the story of the birds and today I saw the trailer of the most recent footage again a couple times on Facebook.It has nothing to do …

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  • Meije North face Voi du Z

    Thursday afternoon.. An other day at the office. Benoit one of my Petzl colleges  comes up to me. If I wanted to come with him tomorrow to climb the Northface of the Meije. The weather supposed to be very good and his friend just canceled.. Uuuh Wy not . So next morning 6 o’ clock …

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