• Worldcup 2013 and 2014 Olympics

    …and there it is. The 2013 Worldcup schedule. The UIAA announced the schedule for 2013 with some new things and some old things. Old: Worldcup in Busteni (why?) I’m surprised. If you read my post about the last Worldcup there, you can understand why I’m ‘slightly’ surprised. (See here, here and here) New: Worldcup in Rabenstein (Italy). …

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  • Busteni 2012

    I just woke up with a nice movie: STS on the Ben. With loads of real climbing, snow and horrible Winter conditions: lovely. Watching the climbers I wished it was me being filled with spindrift snow and getting soaked with water and sweat that after a while would freeze again… In stead I’m in Busteni, …

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  • How-do-they-dare-to-call-this-a-worldcup pt. 2

    Unbelievable. It’s not even 12 yet and I’m already homesick (not homesick as in wanting to be in the Netherlands but homesick as wanting to be in our little van somewhere in the mountains away from all this shit). I woke up at 23:00, 00:00, 01:00, 02:00… and finally again at 07:30. They kept on …

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  • Little Russia in Romania

    Just back in our shared room. It was busy last night with 6 others grinding their iceaxes when we tried to sleep and the couple sleeping above us moving the bed in a good rythm (don’t want to know what that meant). In the middle of the night I woke because of some alarm/phone. I …

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  • Busteni 2012

    Again in Romania. Sorry to say but it really is the last place you want to visit. In some ways even worse then the trip we had to China a couple months ago. But we’re here. The train ride was not as epic as last years’ and we arrived safely in Busteni without having to …

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  • Champagny: worldcup climbing with -30 C

    After the ‘real-ice-sessions’ in Cogne it was time for the Worldcup again. This time it was Champagny-en-Vanoise. For the first time in 10 years a Worldcup on French soil/ice again. We enjoyed the lovely -25C on the first day when we arrived and got warned that it would get worse/better in the next days with …

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  • Video time

    Of every memorisable thing I do I make a little video. Like a diary in moving frames. So nothing spectacular, but it might give you a view on what I do out there :) This one is of what we did in Korea. The next one is Saas Fee (will be visible on Vimeo already)

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  • Real ice in Cogne

    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 …

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  • Worldcup Saas-Fee pt. 2

    Disappointed with the result (13th) which should be 12th, if you’d strictly follow the rules (a Russian climber should have been disqualified) I had quite an unfortunate climb: had my axe stuck in a hold, waisted quite some time there and wasn’t able to fix a hold straight away, waisting more time… Dennis did well …

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