Not even a week back from the beautiful landscapes, views and adventures we had in Scotland. We landed into the reality of having no work and no money.
The last couple days in Scotland were adventurous, windy (very windy) and we explored new things.
The weather at the end changed into perfect spring; less wind, sun and t-shirt-weather-temperatures.
The scary climbs we just did had disappeared so we drove to a milder side of Scotland.
No photoshop, just black and white. Like the life in the mountains compared to the city life in the Netherlands.
Greg still needed his guidebooks back and he planned to go cycling with his girlfriend and biking-addict Dave. We could borrow two bikes.
We expected two old rusty bikes but were surprised by two full-suspension wonder-bikes. My own bike back home is over 15 years old and I’ve been dreaming on ever owning such a good bike, and suddenly I had such a bike for a day!
Greg’s sister has a great mtb kit :)
I’m not much of a mountainbiker so every little hill was a new challenge. Enough stamina to be the first up hill, but by far the slowest on the downhill tracks :)
With a nice fall too. Didn’t knew the brakes on European bikes are opposite to the UK bikes. Aye…
After a full day on the hills around Newtyle, Greg’s mum and sis cooked us an amazing dinner. So needed after the full day, and so, so nice and welcoming!
Flyyyyy :)
On the boat back to the Netherlands we hardly needed any food, still digesting all the steak-pie of the previous day.
And suddenly we were back to climbing with our hands on plastic holds in a flat landscape.
Spaarnwoude climbing wall
Reason we came back: Bergsportdag.
We were nominated for the Bergsportaward (mountain-sports award) of the Dutch mountaineering Federation, NKBV.
They invited us to give a lecture and so we had to go.
The lecture turned out to be in a tiny room, with place for just 30 people, not covered so all movies and talks were constantly interrupted by the talks of the announcers on the fair.
It was good that the visitors enjoyed our lecture and the response was really positive even though it was all made a little worse by the failing technique/electronics in the room and the short amount of time we had to tell about our adventures.
This didn’t just count for us, but for all who gave a presentation in the same room, one video of the team Alpine Adventures couldn’t even be played at all, whilst that little video was one of the nicer ones made. (We’d seen the video before and I was impressed by the style, editing and images.)
Though, the fair (Bergsportdag) seemed to be a succesful event for most. With over 5200 visitors and many stands, brands and companies, there was something for everyone.
Also for us the day wasn’t lost.
We met so many great people and this was for us the start of our new year in the Netherlands again.
We missed these people, these climbers and friends.
Later on the day the nomination of the Bergsportaward was planned.
For the Alpine award the NKBV invited Peter Habeler to announce the winner. Together with Robert Eckhard and Robin Baks they stood on the stage and praised the climbed we all had done the previous year.
Maarten and Arjen with their really adventurous, pure expedition style ascent of the Pik Dankova and a couple new 5000m mountains in the region.
Jefta and Niek with their first Dutch ascent of the beautiful and harsh Fitz Roy.
Jorg with his free ascent of The Nose.
And both our climbs, the Eiger (first Dutch woman to have climbed the Eiger North Face) and the Moonflower Buttress.
We were kind of excited to see who would win, as personally we found all competing climbs also very great, big and special. Although, we both wondered in how The Nose would actually count as Alpine climb.
Not that his climb isn’t worth awarding, no, it’s a super strong achievement!
The last months the audience had time to vote their favourites in all categories (sustainability, sportsclimbing, youth talent, climbing gym, climbing destination, and alpine achievement). In our category the audience would count for 50% the other 50% would be the votes of the judges. How exactly this system would be presented wasn’t very clear. As we were awarded two times in the same category we figured some would vote for our Moonflower climb and some for our Eiger climb, not necessarily for our climb, but also for us as persons. How would they fix that? Add both together? That would be unfair. Keep both separate? That also wouldn’t be very fair either… Ah, well, we’ll see, we thought.
So, the big envelope was handed to Peter on stage. He opened it…and… Jorg won!
Freeclimbing the Nose is really something. Such an difficult thing to do! Truly worth awarding!
Only…alpine?
We still have the greatest award of the year though. The Herman Plugge Irish Coffee Award, now that is an award we’re really proud of :)
Other Bergsport Award winners:
– Best Youth Climber: Mark Brand
– Sustainability: 100% traceable down, Patagonia
– Best climbing gym: Grip Klimcentrum, Nijmegen
– Best bouldering gym: Monk, Eindhoven
– Best travel destination: Wallis, Switzerland
– Best sportsclimbing achievement: Jorg Verhoeven, Wheel of Chaos 8b+ (boulder)
We truly want to thank you all for supporting us and our climbs. Thank you for voting! I believe your votes did make a difference. Let’s go for the next climb, next adventure and next experience :)
Bergsportawards
Not even a week back from the beautiful landscapes, views and adventures we had in Scotland. We landed into the reality of having no work and no money.
The last couple days in Scotland were adventurous, windy (very windy) and we explored new things.
The weather at the end changed into perfect spring; less wind, sun and t-shirt-weather-temperatures.
The scary climbs we just did had disappeared so we drove to a milder side of Scotland.
No photoshop, just black and white. Like the life in the mountains compared to the city life in the Netherlands.
Greg still needed his guidebooks back and he planned to go cycling with his girlfriend and biking-addict Dave. We could borrow two bikes.
We expected two old rusty bikes but were surprised by two full-suspension wonder-bikes. My own bike back home is over 15 years old and I’ve been dreaming on ever owning such a good bike, and suddenly I had such a bike for a day!
Greg’s sister has a great mtb kit :)
I’m not much of a mountainbiker so every little hill was a new challenge. Enough stamina to be the first up hill, but by far the slowest on the downhill tracks :)
With a nice fall too. Didn’t knew the brakes on European bikes are opposite to the UK bikes. Aye…
After a full day on the hills around Newtyle, Greg’s mum and sis cooked us an amazing dinner. So needed after the full day, and so, so nice and welcoming!
Flyyyyy :)
On the boat back to the Netherlands we hardly needed any food, still digesting all the steak-pie of the previous day.
And suddenly we were back to climbing with our hands on plastic holds in a flat landscape.
Spaarnwoude climbing wall
Reason we came back: Bergsportdag.
We were nominated for the Bergsportaward (mountain-sports award) of the Dutch mountaineering Federation, NKBV.
They invited us to give a lecture and so we had to go.
The lecture turned out to be in a tiny room, with place for just 30 people, not covered so all movies and talks were constantly interrupted by the talks of the announcers on the fair.
It was good that the visitors enjoyed our lecture and the response was really positive even though it was all made a little worse by the failing technique/electronics in the room and the short amount of time we had to tell about our adventures.
This didn’t just count for us, but for all who gave a presentation in the same room, one video of the team Alpine Adventures couldn’t even be played at all, whilst that little video was one of the nicer ones made. (We’d seen the video before and I was impressed by the style, editing and images.)
Though, the fair (Bergsportdag) seemed to be a succesful event for most. With over 5200 visitors and many stands, brands and companies, there was something for everyone.
Also for us the day wasn’t lost.
We met so many great people and this was for us the start of our new year in the Netherlands again.
We missed these people, these climbers and friends.
Later on the day the nomination of the Bergsportaward was planned.
For the Alpine award the NKBV invited Peter Habeler to announce the winner. Together with Robert Eckhard and Robin Baks they stood on the stage and praised the climbed we all had done the previous year.
Maarten and Arjen with their really adventurous, pure expedition style ascent of the Pik Dankova and a couple new 5000m mountains in the region.
Jefta and Niek with their first Dutch ascent of the beautiful and harsh Fitz Roy.
Jorg with his free ascent of The Nose.
And both our climbs, the Eiger (first Dutch woman to have climbed the Eiger North Face) and the Moonflower Buttress.
We were kind of excited to see who would win, as personally we found all competing climbs also very great, big and special. Although, we both wondered in how The Nose would actually count as Alpine climb.
Not that his climb isn’t worth awarding, no, it’s a super strong achievement!
The last months the audience had time to vote their favourites in all categories (sustainability, sportsclimbing, youth talent, climbing gym, climbing destination, and alpine achievement). In our category the audience would count for 50% the other 50% would be the votes of the judges. How exactly this system would be presented wasn’t very clear. As we were awarded two times in the same category we figured some would vote for our Moonflower climb and some for our Eiger climb, not necessarily for our climb, but also for us as persons. How would they fix that? Add both together? That would be unfair. Keep both separate? That also wouldn’t be very fair either… Ah, well, we’ll see, we thought.
So, the big envelope was handed to Peter on stage. He opened it…and… Jorg won!
Freeclimbing the Nose is really something. Such an difficult thing to do! Truly worth awarding!
Only…alpine?
We still have the greatest award of the year though. The Herman Plugge Irish Coffee Award, now that is an award we’re really proud of :)
Other Bergsport Award winners:
– Best Youth Climber: Mark Brand
– Sustainability: 100% traceable down, Patagonia
– Best climbing gym: Grip Klimcentrum, Nijmegen
– Best bouldering gym: Monk, Eindhoven
– Best travel destination: Wallis, Switzerland
– Best sportsclimbing achievement: Jorg Verhoeven, Wheel of Chaos 8b+ (boulder)
We truly want to thank you all for supporting us and our climbs. Thank you for voting! I believe your votes did make a difference. Let’s go for the next climb, next adventure and next experience :)
Other write-up’s about the awards (in Dutch) can be found on the blog of Paul La Haye, the website of the NKBV and Metro Nieuws.
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