Jeroen, Monte Cervino (‘de berg’ in Dutch, the mountain) manager, routesetter but most of all climber, asked me to help him with the Monte Cervino/NKBV Via Ferrata clinics that he planned. I’m more into leadclimbing trad routes then walking iron paths but I was up for this new kind of teaching. All around you hear …

Dutch climber Michel Kleinjan and his wife (? are you actually married or should I say ‘girl’ or ‘woman’ or ‘chicka’?) Leonoor just decided to sell their house and live in a ‘wooden shed’ close to the biggest and best climbing gym in the Netherlands. (Mote Cervino, Bergschenhoek) Their idea after years of ‘hibernation’: work …

What I do besides climbing, is educating myself into safety issues. This week a 3 day training in first aid on heights. Suspension trauma’s and more…Soon a little movie about this weeks training I’m doing at Orange Access.

Been quiet on my blog lately.Sorry for that. Been busy with…climbing. A competition in Arnhem (5th, quite okay but should have been better) and last weekend I was involved in family business with Dennis’ family (which was quite nice actually) and of course…climbing. This time another area in Germany, not Ettringen but Ibbenbüren was our …

This weekend not just Ettringen climbing, but something more. I was invited by the Dutch climbing federation (NKBV) to help with the course for trad-climbing instructors. So not just climbing, but teaching climbing as well this weekend. And when it’s about something more then just teaching how to belay it’s fun! The group was motivated …

One of my interests is geology. Actually I’m more then just interested in the subject. I get ‘hyper’ when I talk about volcanism, and the Earth’s activity underground. Last year I was in Iceland at the time of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. This year I’m not living in Iceland anymore, but that doesn’t mean I don’t …

Climbing routes on bolts or climbing routes on trad gear is a difficult ethical issue in climbing. In some countries people only tend to climb on bolts, in some it’s mixed (some area’s are bolted others are clean) and in some trad is the only way to climb. Climbing trad or bolts involves not just …