This weekend the Dutch National ice climbing championship will take place in Utrecht. The mixed climbing wall was closed for the last 2 weeks for route setting. So we took the climbuz to Starzlachklamm in Germany for training with upcoming talents. A short docu about the long weekend: Vertical Life – mixedklim training in Starzlachklamm …
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Training for the Dutch National ice climbing championships
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Drytooling got my heart on fire.
A week full of things happening: car issues, a lecture, my heart on fire and the drytool event at Usine. My heart on fire. Read about it here: Tuesday November 15. We missed the movie premiere at Grenoble. So wished we were there. So great they managed to publish the new movie! European climbing: ice, …
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Olympic!
A couple weeks ago we had a meeting with head of the Dutch Climbing/Mountaineering Federation (NKBV), Robin Baks. Robin talked about recent developments and we displayed our wishes and ideas for the future of our sports. And Robin had a HUGE news item for us. Iceclimbing is recognized by the Dutch Olympic Committee NOC*NSF. Finally! …
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Friends
This year has been a big roller-coaster for us. No job, no house, no money, and loads of unfortunate events. The biggest reason why we’re still here, have a website, train for climbing, get motivated, is because of our friends. And some of these friends need an extra special thank-you. Last weekend we organised a …
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NK IJsklimmen
This Winter we had one of the most intense competition seasons (apart from when Dennis won the Worldcup in Saas Fee three years ago). So many ups and downs. From a broken collarbone to a thrice broken car to a D13+ flash to no ice at all to being part of a soon to be …
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DTS* Dry Tool Style
Dry Tool Style Day 1. After climbing the qualification route at the Ice Climbing World Cup – Eisturm Rabenstein I found myself worthy to stick the highly praised “DTS” (dry tooling style) sticker on my helmet. I climbed the quali’s in a “DTS” Style without figures of four/nine. And Yesterday I climbed “The Roof” M12+ …
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Rabenstein
Almost…almost made it to the finals. The worldcup series is a weird thing. A circus traveling around the world trying to perform, all do the best they can. There were high’s and low’s. Here a small summary; Bozeman – we couldn’t go. No money and we had to organise a competition in the Netherlands. So …
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Kamasutra Flash
Drytooling Kamasutra Flash sounds like a ‘different’ thing. But no, it’s just ‘iceclimbing’. Really. How to kill a Nomic iceaxe/aka Kamasutra D13+ flash! Iseo, Italy just days after the Worldcup in Saas Fee. Before the last stage at Rabenstein we wanted to relax, climb and enjoy the Italian sun. We need to. I picked up the cold …
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10 years IWC Saas Fee 2006- 2016
This year is the tenth time Dennis takes part in the Iceclimbing Worldcup at Saas Fee, Switzerland. It was one of his best, regarding the lead climbing and one of his worst regarding the speed climbing. But, he at least didn’t put an iceaxe in his leg this time. Tired from all the travelling Marianne …
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