For the last 5 years Verticallife has been organising the DDE (Duth Drytool Event). This way we create training facilities in the Netherlands and a bigger mixed climbing platform. This year the DDE at Monte Cervino was another succes with loads of new climbers joining the event and also new faces in the finals on…
December 5. Friday morning Vitus, Jan and me headed out from Isny at 05:30 to Heerjansdam. Yes, another great opportunity to head home to the Netherlands. Last weekend it was not only “Sinterklaas” but also DDE 2014 (Dutch Drytool Event) . After 11 our drive with my “new” campervan, a lot of black clouds, loud music and…
The train takes long. Forever long. The only entertainment left was my mobile phone after I finished all the work on my laptop. My e-book had an empty battery and I couldn’t fit knitting needles in my two stuffed bags. On Facebook the ‘should-the-Dutch-Climbing-Federation-tell-climbers-how-to-use-a-Figure-of-Eight-“belay-device”-discussion’ got pretty spicy. Good entertainment for me. I mostly don’t comment…
Friday – travel “No, your car is too big for a normal parking place so you’ll have to pay €4,50 instead of €3,00 per day”. Our car is actually smaller and shorter then a modern T5, station or other larger car. It only looks bigger because of the campervan-box on the back. We refused to…
Every weekend I try to make most of the free time I have. This saturday I had the chance to go for an easy ski-tour. Fantastic! It was my first time to just go ski-touring for the ski-touring instead of using it as a tool to get to an ice climb. I first was afraid…
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…
When most iceclimbers now climb at the Bozeman Icefest (we don’t have the money to go there) we enjoy the snow, rocks and ice in Germany this weekend.Living in Southern Germany gives advantages and disadvantages.One of the great advantages are the magical climbing areas; of which one of them a dark cold wet, if luckcy…
A great impression of a super good day!↵ Use original playerPetzl Dutch Drytool EventBy Monte CervinoYouTube720p360p← ReplayXiThanks guys for putting this together :)
Hardly done with Expeditie Geluk I jumped into the next event. The organisation of the Petzl Dutch Drytool Event, or short: DDE.For over two weeks I slept on the couch in the bar of climbing gym Monte Cervino.I gave up my house in Rotterdam, and my parents lived too far away to drive to the…
The last chance to book your flight and join the Dutch Drytool Event! Video thanks to Joost and Martin
Almost. Almost.Just one more route to set and some to fix a bit, and then we’re done!21 routes in just over 1 week time, that’s not bad :)Living in the gym and climbing, running and route setting every day makes me quite fit. And I love the climbing so much that sleeping on the couch…
On this side of the world it’s all about ice, mixed and drytooling.Strange and funny, but on the other side of the world it’s almost the same thing at the Iceclimbing Worldchampionships in South-Korea.Dennis is now there to climb.You can follow all the climbers on the Korean Worldchampionships Facebook page here.I have a restday. Sleeping,…
Ladies and gentlemen, we did it!What is the chance?!Now, buy a lottery ticket and get into a casino :)
We did it. Again. Better and bigger. This weekend was the international drytool weekend. France had the DTS.Scotland the STS.And we had the DDE.We don’t have a website. We just had a Facebook Event Page and managed to get more people then the STS and the DTS together!91 competitors subscribed. Next to those who subscribed there were also some who…
This week I’m working harder then ever to get my favourite local climbing gym ready for the biggest climbing event of the year: Dutch Drytool Event.Super stormy weather with rain… Perfect to go out for some routesetting…Last year I organised the event in another gym. They promised me all kinds of things. Money, being part of…
Happiness, pain, hard work, long days, amazing views, heat and cold, rough hands, beautiful people and in the middle of that circle… me?Really?Last month I was in Colorado.For the first time in the States.As an European I had my ideas on how it would be. Fat people, nationalism, weird expressions on freedom and the immense…
The bedroom animals are welcoming us :)After we’ve been traveling for more then a month (France, Germany, Swiss, Denmark, Iceland…)We’re home.Dennis is home after 7 (!) months of travel, study and work.It’s so strange to be here together that sometimes we have to get used to each other again.Strange but nice. Our new bed feels…
Finally, after a whole year of horrible ice (Kandersteg, Iceland…) we wanted to climb something proper. We heard Cogne in Italy was the only place this year that had some ice. All other areas were far too dry or warm. So, we skip the comp in Rabenstein (which would be too far anyway) and just…
Grrrr…I came here to be in the finals and failed. Not much more to tell then: I’m much stronger then last year but miss the right training (wall, people) to get better and do the right thing I guess. 12 & 12 in both lead and speed. Not bad, but not good enough. Wednesday is…
Finally we arrived in South Korea for the first worldcup of the season. We arrived together with two members of the Swiss team and I just lay down in bed. A bed. A bed…a real bed. We got our rooms, Dennis had to sleep in the guys room, and I was sleeping in the girls…