Yesterday Dennis was interviewed for yet another kind of media: Algemeen Dagblad. The result is a very nice article about Dennis and iceclimbing. The positive thing about the article is that the interviewer seems to understand the idea of climbing and doesn’t just see it as ‘dangerous adrenaline sports’ as most do who don’t know …
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Iceclimbing in the Dutch national newspaper.
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Iceclimbing @Home
After the massive Championship wall in Bodegraven, we build our own little pinnacle at home.It was all melting around us, so there wasn’t much left when we finally had the time to try out the wall.But it was funny to climb at home in flat country Holland (:
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Ice Climbing @ home
Yesterday it was a bit too warm, so the little ice wall became even smaller. But my brothers and father had great fun experiencing ice climbing. Icelcimbing at home in…the Netherlands from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.
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Dutch Championships Iceclimbing
Bodegraven was for the first time (evarrr) the scenery for the Dutch Championships Iceclimbing. Thomas Knoope had built an amazing pillar and the NKBV got to the idea to hold a competition on the ice. The first on natural ice. We were lucky with the weather, today it’s around +4 degrees Celcius, but at the …
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NK ijsklimmen
Gisteren was het zover het eerste NK ijsklimmen. Om 19:00 begon de eerste Nederlands wedstrijd ijsklimmen op echt natuurijs. De NKBV is afgelopen dagen hard bezig geweest om de wedstrijd in samen werking met Thomas Knoope te realiseren. En door een grote toestroom van de Media kwamen wij verschillende keren in het nieuws. NK ijsklimmen …
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Vertical ice in Holland!
For the first time ever: iceclimbing on natural ice, outdoors, in…my own little flat country: the Netherlands! Today, Friday will be the first Dutch ICEclimbing championships. Thomas Knoope created his own iceclimbing wall last year. This year the NKBV (Dutch Alpine Club) came to the idea of holding a competition on the wall. It’s amazing …
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STS competition
An other Hit & run. This weekend the last competiton from the Scotisch Tooling Series took place at EICA in Ratho. A great comp loads of routes and more important: loads of people. After a cold night outside (-7 & snow) we warmed up at the center. 4 hours time to climb all 15 route’s. …
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Scottish Tooling Series, hit&run
And yet again another competition. After Innsbrück we now went to Schotland, Edinburgh. We were there to take part in the Scottish Tooling Series comp in EICA Ratho. A friendly competition for climbers, by climbers. There were more then 60 (!) competitors in all categories (veterans and youth included) For the qualifications we had to …
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3 December eerste ijsklimwedstrijd in Nederland
Daar waar het bestuur der Friese elf steden voorzichtig praat over een mogelijke elfstedentocht heeft IJsmeester Thomas Knoope uit Bodegraven nu al zijn Go gegeven voor de allereerste ijsklimwedstrijd van Nederland. Op vrijdag 3 december zal in Bodegraven voor het eerst een klimwedstrijd op bevroren waterijs gehouden worden. Meestal heeft ijspret in Nederland een nogal …
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