Tomorrow I’ll fly all the way to Denver to meet a group of very enthusiast alpine climbers.Im selected to be part of the Alpine Mentor programme coordinated my famous climber Steve House.I’ve no idea what to expect (loads of alpine stuff probably).So I’m extremely excited!And confused, as my we have to move out of our …
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Alpine Mentor Programme
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Winter sale
Hi everyone.As always Dennis and I need money to have enough funds for our climbing (training, comps, trips, gear).So every year we have a big sale.See Dennis website for more details and e-mail him if you need anything you haven’t found on his site so far.
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Home
The bedroom animals are welcoming us :) After we’ve been traveling for more then a month (France, Germany, Swiss, Denmark, Iceland…)We’re home.Dennis is home after 7 (!) months of travel, study and work.It’s so strange to be here together that sometimes we have to get used to each other again.Strange but nice. Our new bed …
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Hiking adventure, Iceland
The weather has changed.Quite a bit.From +18 Celcius (when lucky) to minus-something-cold last night.We were in Vestrahorn, planning to climb there. But the weather wasn’t really cooperating. It was even too wet, windy and rainy for bouldering.We thought it would be best to slowly drive to our ‘final destination’ in Iceland: Seydisfjörður. From where we …
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Iceland, the last Summer days
Iceland only knows two seasons.Summer.and Winter.The second just arrived this week calling the end of our holiday. Snow arrived in the mountains The last week we went from Hnappavellir to our next and maybe favourite Icelandic wall: Fjallastakkanöf. View from our office Left side of Fjallastakkanöf Note the hexagon shaped block We decided it was …
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RVK (Reykjavík) – Höfn
RVK is short for writing Reykjavík in Icelandic.The capital of Iceland.To be honest…not the most interesting place in Iceland. Seltjarnarnes a land tongue at Reykjavik But maybe thats because the contrast is so big. (And yes you can find good culture in Reykjavik, the small old Opera house is beautiful, the musea are nice, some …
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Iceland Basalt pt. 5
Yes, I just did something utterly brilliant.I accidentally deleted all new pictures and short movies from my iPhone before the transfer to my laptop was finished. And as the iTunes backup wasn’t finished either I lost all.All super awesome pictures from the most beautiful wall are lost now.Nothing of our ascents is left. (Great…)Just these …
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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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