Author Archives: Dennis van Hoek

Stage four of the Iceclimbing worldcup series was a smack in the face for me. With lead I was doing good and made a 14th place in Semi Finals. Dual speed is not really my thing its knock out and when you make a small mistake its over. I qualified firsts for the Semi finals …

We were on the most serious ice climbing  event ever. The Rabensteiner Bauernmeisterschaften 2013 Where local farmers do a relay with hay-sledging and iceclimbing. And when you win, you get a sheep. What better price could you ever imagine! Just ‘priceless’ :) See here the result. (Oh, yes, that song is Dutch, about a yodel-boy, …

Variante Babylon, Eisarena 270m WI7- M9 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.

Yesterday Bad Gastein was the scene for a great iceclimbing competition. In the Center of Bad Gastein they made a ice wall of 25 meter with a drytool wall to finish. We competed together with 22 other climbers and it was great fun. Great organization and a great atmosphere resulted in a first place! Picture: …

Restday work, sharpening our tools [Marianne] Okay, so we climbed the long ice thing in they valley. Now it’s time for our original objective. Actually, I was confused with what the objective was. We talked so much about freeclimbing an old aid line, that I for some reason thought that was our objective. Dennis seemed …

After  three weeks of competition climbing we are on the road again. This time not with our beloved VW T3 Syncro campervan, but with a simple rental car. No warm home, kitchen, bookshelf full of climbing guidebooks, and our sweet little bed. Just before the start of the Rabenstein IWC the gearbox decided to bail …

In Rabenstein Sud Tirol the organisation was in big distress when the valley warmed up around 10th of january and all the ice melted off the structure. But after 2 weeks of hard work the structure looked better than ever. So all set ready for comp day. Picture: Nathan Kutcher A structure with loads of …

Nummer one! Winning speed run! 7.05 seconds . Dennis van Hoek on his Gold winning run. Iceclimbing Worldcup Saas Fee 2013 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. 5l8_EVv_jyW.swf?v=569543069741674&ev=0

Yes!! After 7 years I finaly made the 1st place in speed on the Worlcup in Saas Fee with a 7.05 second run :) . Stopping the time :p Picture: Menno Boermans Picture by: Lukasz Warzecha And with Lead I made a 13th place in the Semi Finales not enough for the Finals but i’m …