Author Archives: Diederik

Okay, I still didn’t publish the video of our Piz Badile climb. Here, the whole story in words with the video :) August 04. 2011 13:00h. Adventure Today I’m going to tell you about an adventure. An experience that went good, was beautiful but so tireing and demanding that it was something to remind of, …

Sometimes you just neeeed a restday. Like one we needed today. Good weather, clouds in the mountains, bit of rain in the morning. Perfect for a restday. We washed in the public toilets this morning, posted the usual cards to our families at home and now enjoying coffee in internet café ‘Enjoy’ in Chamonix. Dennis …

Finally, we did it. What an adventure it was. The weather was good (for just one day, when we came back in the valley it rained again). Meanwhile a lot of things ‘happened’. We traveled through Swiss, visited Chur and the Oberalppass and climbed a horrible but nice (how is that possible?) 10 pitch slab. …

Travelling around in Engadin and the Chiavenna region. Border hopping you can call it. One day on the Italian side (Chiavenna) the other day on the Swizz side again (Breggalia/Engadin valley) Due to the bad weather conditions we haven’t had the chance to climb what we’re here for. Bouldering is nice, sportsclimbing is fun though …

We bailed out of Val di Mello. Why? Rain and snow… We drove down and guessed trad and Alpine climbing would be over for the next week(s). But suddenly the Swiss forecast changed and we ‘ran’ to Bondo. Once in Bondo it rained, Piz Badile covered in clouds and when we called the hut they …

After a couple of days in Friedrichshafen it was time to head for the Alps. Too bad thats it’s raining everywhere… Two days ago we woke up with snowy mountains all around. One of the locals told us he hadn’t seen this much snow in July in 32 years! Hopefully it will get better in …

So cool! I won, I won, yes, yes. I won a restyle of our beloved campervan. A professional stylist would come and restyle our van and I got an interview with pictures of the restyle in Dutch magazine ‘Viva’. A month ago the team came over and did the restyle. A professional photographer took pictures. …

I was thinking…what title should I give this post. And actually ‘work, climbing’ is actually all I do these days and yes, a bit more: studying (sometimes). Yesterday I was working for Outdoor Westvoorne, my favourite outdoor sports company in the Netherlands ;) I was belaying kids, all day. On a campsite in the province …