The weather has changed.Quite a bit.From +18 Celcius (when lucky) to minus-something-cold last night.We were in Vestrahorn, planning to climb there. But the weather wasn’t really cooperating. It was even too wet, windy and rainy for bouldering.We thought it would be best to slowly drive to our ‘final destination’ in Iceland: Seydisfjörður. From where we …
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Hiking adventure, Iceland
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Syncro IJsland 2012
Busje Iceland 2012 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. Some images of our trip through Iceland. Plan was to go rockclimbing, iceclimbing and running and that all being carried around by the super cool Syncro that Dennis owns. Normally we edit climbing things, this time we edited how much fun driving offroad can be …
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Iceland, the last Summer days
Iceland only knows two seasons.Summer.and Winter.The second just arrived this week calling the end of our holiday. Snow arrived in the mountains The last week we went from Hnappavellir to our next and maybe favourite Icelandic wall: Fjallastakkanöf. View from our office Left side of Fjallastakkanöf Note the hexagon shaped block We decided it was …
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Hangikjöt Freeclimb
We free climbed a the old aid route Hangikjöt (hanging sheep ham) in Fjallastakkanöf. A 90M route up to 7a+ difficulty’s and moving pillars/rocks. For free climbing a difficult start, climb a small slap no pro on to the “dancing” pillar. On top of this 20 M pillar we placed a 10mm bolt for security (moving …
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Up-date pt 5.1
After some bad weather it was climbing time again. We climbed some more on Fjallstakkanof: Marianne made a really nice piece on here blog so Enjoy : http://lavinia-marianne.blogspot.com/2012/08/rvk-reykjavik-hofn.html
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RVK (Reykjavík) – Höfn
RVK is short for writing Reykjavík in Icelandic.The capital of Iceland.To be honest…not the most interesting place in Iceland. Seltjarnarnes a land tongue at Reykjavik But maybe thats because the contrast is so big. (And yes you can find good culture in Reykjavik, the small old Opera house is beautiful, the musea are nice, some …
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Landmannalaugar
Laugavegurinn in a day :) 55-60km run and offraod driving from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.
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Iceland Basalt pt. 5
Yes, I just did something utterly brilliant.I accidentally deleted all new pictures and short movies from my iPhone before the transfer to my laptop was finished. And as the iTunes backup wasn’t finished either I lost all.All super awesome pictures from the most beautiful wall are lost now.Nothing of our ascents is left. (Great…)Just these …
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Iceland Pt 4 Barad-dûr
Iceland pt 4 new trad routes around Gimluklett from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. Barad-dûr (5c) , Lundi (6c) and Damocles Camping-fridge (6b)
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