Ettringen isn’t scary.Really, it’s okay to fall in a cam.…if you place it correctly, it the rock holds, if your foot doesn’t slip, if you don’t get tangled in the rope, if you don’t pull out any holds, if it’s not onsight, if it’s not raining, if… Last week I vistited Ettringen together with Frank …
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Ettringen is niet Eng
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Shopping
It’s been years since I visited the ‘Kalverstraat’ in Amsterdam. This time the excuse was my brother: he needed some new clothing. Trousers, shoes, sweaters, t-shirts… All he has is worn out and just needs to be replaced. The last time he went shopping was before he started his Master Industrial Design. This week he …
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The storm and the plastic heroes
Today, Sunday I woke up early.Normal for my Sunday, but maybe weird for most people.This time it was not for climbing, not for running, not for the family-visits. Nope.It was for the rubbish. Or actually, against the rubbish. As ambassador of Respect the Mountains I was invited to join the first (out of 7) EnviroTracks.And …
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Steep climbing is like chocolate
Céuse :) Céuse Last week I drove Dennis back to his French hometown Crolles.And I stayed for another week.Not just in Crolles :) I had a mission: get back to Céuse. Céüse, Ceüze, Ceuze, Céüse, Ce… whatever, they can’t even write it themselves. (The cliff is called Céuse, the topo says Céüse, the roadsigns say …
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Petzl Roc Trip 2012
Quite some years of Petzl Roc Trips all over the world… And this is number 10! All the way to South America. Remember the China trip report? I don’t know much yet, but as far as I know you should start booking your ticket for the best climbing event of the decade!
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Midway
↵ Use original player 404 Error loading Vimeo video I came across the story and images of poor ‘plastic birds’ over a year ago.Later I saw a trailer about the story of the birds and today I saw the trailer of the most recent footage again a couple times on Facebook.It has nothing to do …
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Berdorf
Short message: went to Berdorf (Luxemburg) and climbed hardly anything.Insecure bla bla bla.I’d been there as a child, walking around the beautiful sandstone and yes it was still beautiful!Only negative thing: it was so busy that you had to wait for basically every route. Even the 8b’s (+) were occupied!Let’s go again on a normal …
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Presles
As I said before, I’d travel again.All the way to Grenoble.Again. The weather forecast wasn’t too good. Rainy, not really warm. But it was a long weekend (Ascension in French, Hemelvaart in Dutch), so no reason to stay indoors (read: inside the van). We decided get stay close to Grenoble and drove to Presles. (Pronounced …
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Best climbing video of the Year!
No wonder it took Petzl some time to edit all the China-images.They created a master-piece!This video is the full version on what you’ve seen before about the Petzl Roc Trip 2011.Getu Vally, China was the location.Amazing culture, awesome climbing!Most climbing video’s show pro-climbers pulling on holds for 15 minutes and don’t snow anything (or hardly …
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