↵ 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Awesome! (It’s my new word for today) Ambassador of Respect the Mountains. Last Monday I was invited at Respect the Mountains (RTM) headquarters in Amsterdam.And now I’m suddenly ambassador together with other awesome mountain athletes like Xavier de la Rue and Bas Elhorst. Not that I’m now going to force you to eat macro-biotic food, live …

Yay, third place on the national lead competition! Okay that said, I can write about what I did this weekend :) Last week Roeland van Oss succesfully passed his final guiding exams. Meaning he’s now an official UIAGM mountain guide!So if you want to get into the mountains and you’re looking for a passionate, driven, …

I’m back in France after a couple weeks of full-full-full-time work (including all weekends…) Happy to be free again and happy to be in the mountains again and even happier to see Dennis again.Tough, Dennis is working every day so I have to figure how to have fun on my own. As I’ve been giving …

When I look back to what I did last year, it’s still fantastic. I went all the way to China, traveled over 2000km to visit a very special climbing area: Getu Valley. At the time being there I was totally not satisfied with what I was able to climb and was ashamed sometimes of my …

Here in Bergschenhoek climbing is developing. The Monte Cervino kids-club is increasing, on the day there are loads of schools climbing and in the evening you can now have your personal training guidance as well. Michel Kleinjan is offering training in the evenings and yesterday was my first session. I’m a very, extremely, utterly slow …