After three weeks of competition climbing we are on the road again. This time not with our beloved VW T3 Syncro campervan, but with a simple rental car. No warm home, kitchen, bookshelf full of climbing guidebooks, and our sweet little bed.Just before the start of the Rabenstein IWC the gearbox decided to bail on …
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Bad Gastein Austria, Supervisor 270m WI6 on a ‘sick’ day.
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Supervisor 270m WI6
After three weeks of competition climbing we are on the road again. This time not with our beloved VW T3 Syncro campervan, but with a simple rental car. No warm home, kitchen, bookshelf full of climbing guidebooks, and our sweet little bed. Just before the start of the Rabenstein IWC the gearbox decided to bail …
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Video time
Recently a couple people had been busy with editing nice video’s. 1. Ouray Ice Park, gives a good view on the Ouray area, where you really should go if you want to climb ice. 2. The Ouray ice comp, in which I competed too. 3. The Icelanders and their sportsclimbing/bouldering. All in Icelandic, but o.k. …
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Rabenstein IWC
The very inventious mobile icewall used for the speedclimbing demo in the centre of Meran.Quick thought: can’t we use this to promote iceclimbing? Rabenstein didn’t really go as planned.After a nice break in Arco I thought I was ready for the comp.But I guess the stress of making it in time to Rabenstein with a …
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Rabenstein IWC III
In Rabenstein Sud Tirol the organisation was in big distress when the valley warmed up around 10th of january and all the ice melted off the structure. But after 2 weeks of hard work the structure looked better than ever. So all set ready for comp day. Picture: Nathan Kutcher A structure with loads of …
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Speed Saas Fee IWC II Update
Nummer one! Winning speed run! 7.05 seconds . Dennis van Hoek on his Gold winning run. Iceclimbing Worldcup Saas Fee 2013 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. 5l8_EVv_jyW.swf?v=569543069741674&ev=0
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Coverage of Dennis first world cup victory
NKBV front page January 2013
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Ouray to Saas Fee
You win some you loose some. For me it felt like loosing a little bit and failing incredibly. “But for a Dutch climber you did really well” “You looked pretty strong there” “You’ll do better next time” “The others are so strong too” “But if you don’t reach the finals, please don’t be too disappointed” …
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1st place Speed!! Saas Fee IWC II
Yes!! After 7 years I finaly made the 1st place in speed on the Worlcup in Saas Fee with a 7.05 second run :) . Stopping the time :p Picture: Menno Boermans Picture by: Lukasz Warzecha And with Lead I made a 13th place in the Semi Finales not enough for the Finals but i’m …
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