Author Archives: Dennis van Hoek

Just 3 more nights and its time for the first ice comp/event of the season Hosted bij Petzl in Klimax Puurs Belgium. Really stoked!!

Alpine Mentors from Wayfaring Media on Vimeo. “The vision of Alpine Mentors is for small groups of young alpinists to train and climb with mentors with the aim of achieving climbs perceived to be beyond their reach. Participants will endeavor to communicate their experience with humility and integrity, will act to redress the environmental impacts …

We are getting ready for the Winter! For the worldcups we try to collect some money by selling the whole spare kit. for some bargains: http://www.dennisvanhoek.nl/?page_id=194 TNF 2011 expedition downjacket size L 150€ Dennisvanhoek@gmail. com

Iceland pt 9 Fjallastakkanof Hnappavellir Climbing iceland/island

Iceland pt 6 RVK – Gerduberg from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. What we do on the Island. This is part 6 of our climbing diary. We went from Reykjavík to Gerduberg to climb on the rare columnar Basalt.

Iceland pt 7 Glacier ice climbing from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. After we ran/drove around Landmannalaugar we went back into the Skaftafell area. It was raining. Every day. For the whole week… So not much rock to climb. We decided to climb some glacier ice instead. Hoping to find some big caves we …

Busje Iceland 2012 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. Some images of our trip through Iceland. Plan was to go rockclimbing, iceclimbing and running and that all being carried around by the super cool Syncro that Dennis owns. Normally we edit climbing things, this time we edited how much fun driving offroad can be …

We free climbed a the old aid route  Hangikjöt (hanging sheep ham) in Fjallastakkanöf. A 90M route up to 7a+ difficulty’s and moving pillars/rocks. For  free climbing a difficult start, climb a small slap  no pro on to the “dancing” pillar. On top of this 20 M pillar we placed a 10mm  bolt for security (moving …

After some bad weather it was climbing time again. We climbed some more on Fjallstakkanof: Marianne made a really nice piece on here blog so Enjoy : http://lavinia-marianne.blogspot.com/2012/08/rvk-reykjavik-hofn.html