It’s Worldcup season. For a while already but I didn’t have the money to join the comps yet. But there was no excuse not to go the the biggest and most difficult comp of the year: Saas Fee, Swiss. Dennis, my boyfriend won the speed discipline last year so he had to defend his title. …
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Saas Fee Finals
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IWC Saas Fee
As usual. Nervous. Already.Sigh… But thats apparently how it works with me and competitions. The only way to solve it is, as far as I know, become just much stronger then I’d need to be to compensate for the weakness that comes with the nerves. We missed the first two competitions; the first which was …
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Dry Ice tools
I am an iceclimber. Or more just climber. I climb everything. Buildings and industrial structures for work, bouldering for strength and social fun, routes because I love that, Alpine because I sometimes like to suffer and mixed because I love the technical awkward leverages you do with those sharp tool thingies. Oh, yes and I …
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Climbing is sooo 2014!
Fireworks over Jokulsarlon, Iceland Last night Dennis and I were lying in bed and wondering… what do we want to do in 2014. I’ve never planned a year as much as I just did for 2014. Big trips, visits and challenges. I’ve never wanted as much climbing as I want for 2014. And when I …
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Starzlachklamm – drytooling
When most iceclimbers now climb at the Bozeman Icefest (we don’t have the money to go there) we enjoy the snow, rocks and ice in Germany this weekend. Living in Southern Germany gives advantages and disadvantages.One of the great advantages are the magical climbing areas; of which one of them a dark cold wet, if …
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Because who is perfect?
A couple years ago I wasn’t a freelancer yet.I found it really hard to find a job in between all the climbing that I wanted to do and all I studied seemed useless.So I started for a employment agency. Once I got a call and they asked me if I was strong enough to sand …
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Ze Zermans
I’ve been in Germany for a week now. And so much can happen in one week time. View from our new home in Kleinweiler We arrived last Monday evening. Pulled everything out of the car and went to bed. The whole bedroom was filled with stuff and we realised that giving away furniture results in …
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Petzl Dutch Drytool Event – The Video!
A great impression of a super good day! ↵ Use original player Petzl Dutch Drytool Event By Monte Cervino YouTube 720p 360p ← Replay X i Thanks guys for putting this together :)
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Petzl DDE 2013 – every year a little better.
Hardly done with Expeditie Geluk I jumped into the next event. The organisation of the Petzl Dutch Drytool Event, or short: DDE. For over two weeks I slept on the couch in the bar of climbing gym Monte Cervino.I gave up my house in Rotterdam, and my parents lived too far away to drive to …
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