The annoying thing of fruitboots is that most come standard with a specific crampon. The Boreal’s with Black Diamond, the Asolo with Petzl, the La Sportiva with Grivel… So if you want to have Petzl crampons on Boreal boots (or any other combi) this is what you can do: 1. Get a couple spacer rings …
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Modding iceclimbing shoes
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ISPO 2014
ISPO 2014 By Marianne van der Steen Edit Dennis van Hoek Not being sponsored by a climbing hardware company gives an awkward advantage when visiting the ISPO. This year I was allowed to take a look at the current market with a very open mind. I even heard myself saying “I think I’d like to …
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ISPO Munich 2014 – The climbing gear
ISPO 2014 Not being sponsored by a climbing hardware company gives an awkward advantage when visiting the ISPO. This year I was allowed to take a look at the current market with a very open mind. I even heard myself saying “I think I’d like to use that”. To a brand-manager of a brand that …
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From 2006 to a “Professional”?
As a part of the “internet” generation in 2004 the website Icelimbing.nl opened a new world for me the world of Mixed and Ice climbing. I bought some crappy ice tools through the internet and sold them again before they ever seen any Ice.. Early 2005 I climbed my first mixed route with home made …
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Saas Fee Finals
It’s Worldcup season. For a while already but I didn’t have the money to join the comps yet. But there was no excuse not to go the the biggest and most difficult comp of the year: Saas Fee, Swiss. Dennis, my boyfriend won the speed discipline last year so he had to defend his title. …
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IWC Saas Fee
As usual. Nervous. Already.Sigh… But thats apparently how it works with me and competitions. The only way to solve it is, as far as I know, become just much stronger then I’d need to be to compensate for the weakness that comes with the nerves. We missed the first two competitions; the first which was …
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Dry Ice tools
I am an iceclimber. Or more just climber. I climb everything. Buildings and industrial structures for work, bouldering for strength and social fun, routes because I love that, Alpine because I sometimes like to suffer and mixed because I love the technical awkward leverages you do with those sharp tool thingies. Oh, yes and I …
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