Marianne was talking the last 2 years about a 7a+ route in Iceland that was bolted trad line..”Sundlaugarparty” (“Swimmingpoolparty” because of the water under the route). Finally the moment was there to give it a shot. We worked the route and both climbed it in the original style! A great route and such a pleasure …
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Iceland Pt 3 Sundlaugarparty
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Iceland pt. 4 Sundlaugarparty
Yes, I already did it!One of my missions in Iceland was to climb an old trad route in the climbing area Hnappavellir.The route used to be trad, opened over 20 years ago in two pitches. It’s on the tallest cliff in the area just over 30m in height.It had been bolted a couple years ago. …
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Iceland pt. 3 Vestrahorn multipitch
On the first day we drove straight to Vestrahorn to see if we could climb some trad multipitch there. I’ve been living in Iceland for some years and never climbed any trad or multipitch here and really regret it… So I didn’t knew where to find any of the right stuff. Sorry, want to write a …
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Iceland 2 Arrival in Seydisfjordur
After three horrible boat days we finally arrived in Iceland! ↵ Use original player 404 Error loading Vimeo video Iceland 2012 pt 1 The Boat from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.
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Iceland Pt2 Vestrahorn
Iceland pt 2 Day 1 and 2 Vestrahorn from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. We just arrived to Iceland. Time to discover all that can be done here. Marianne used to live in Iceland but never discovered any multipitch, trad and alpine stuff. (Really regret that!) It’s because of some Icelandic friends that She …
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Iceland pt1 Arival
Iceland 2012 pt 1 The Boat from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. Hardly any climbing so far. Just waiting and almost died of boredom on the boat… But we’re there now and already found some awesome offroad and beautiful walls to climb :) To be continued!
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