This year has been a big roller-coaster for us. No job, no house, no money, and loads of unfortunate events. The biggest reason why we’re still here, have a website, train for climbing, get motivated, is because of our friends. And some of these friends need an extra special thank-you. Last weekend we organised a …
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Friends
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Sabine en Erik
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Katja Staartjes
http://katjastaartjes.nl/
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NK IJsklimmen
This Winter we had one of the most intense competition seasons (apart from when Dennis won the Worldcup in Saas Fee three years ago). So many ups and downs. From a broken collarbone to a thrice broken car to a D13+ flash to no ice at all to being part of a soon to be …
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DTS* Dry Tool Style
Dry Tool Style Day 1. After climbing the qualification route at the Ice Climbing World Cup – Eisturm Rabenstein I found myself worthy to stick the highly praised “DTS” (dry tooling style) sticker on my helmet. I climbed the quali’s in a “DTS” Style without figures of four/nine. And Yesterday I climbed “The Roof” M12+ …
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Rabenstein
Almost…almost made it to the finals. The worldcup series is a weird thing. A circus traveling around the world trying to perform, all do the best they can. There were high’s and low’s. Here a small summary; Bozeman – we couldn’t go. No money and we had to organise a competition in the Netherlands. So …
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Kamasutra Flash
Drytooling Kamasutra Flash sounds like a ‘different’ thing. But no, it’s just ‘iceclimbing’. Really. How to kill a Nomic iceaxe/aka Kamasutra D13+ flash! Iseo, Italy just days after the Worldcup in Saas Fee. Before the last stage at Rabenstein we wanted to relax, climb and enjoy the Italian sun. We need to. I picked up the cold …
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Korea
This week we flew all the way to South Korea for the second stage of the Iceclimbing Worldcup. We missed the first one (money/forced double events) in Bozeman, USA. So, this was our chance to do our ‘thing’. Dennis looking forward to the winter season at Schiphol airport. Beforehand we had quite some unfortunate …
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10 years IWC Saas Fee 2006- 2016
This year is the tenth time Dennis takes part in the Iceclimbing Worldcup at Saas Fee, Switzerland. It was one of his best, regarding the lead climbing and one of his worst regarding the speed climbing. But, he at least didn’t put an iceaxe in his leg this time. Tired from all the travelling Marianne …
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