Nummer one! Winning speed run! 7.05 seconds . Dennis van Hoek on his Gold winning run. Iceclimbing Worldcup Saas Fee 2013 from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. 5l8_EVv_jyW.swf?v=569543069741674&ev=0

Yes!! After 7 years I finaly made the 1st place in speed on the Worlcup in Saas Fee with a 7.05 second run :) . Stopping the time :p Picture: Menno Boermans Picture by: Lukasz Warzecha And with Lead I made a 13th place in the Semi Finales not enough for the Finals but i’m …

I wake up, hmm where is my phone.. 7:13… uhhou.. Sh*t. jump out of bed…. 7:15 the bus is leaving.. Throwing  my competiton outfit over my head grap my gear(most of it..) steal a banana on my way out running to the bus. Good Morning Korea! After the 45 min bus ride we arrived at …

I finally arrived in Seoul time for some sight seeing since there is nothing else to do :p Seoul Tower Ice sculptures in the Korean tradition village Feeling very Safe with my driver watching and “dancing” on gangnam style during the ride… And the Cheong Song is also safe with loads of military action.. :) …

After all the preperation on training and on the ClimBuz i’m on my way to Korea :) . After “just” 2 coolwater leaks I arrived today in Genevé to fly to Seoul tommorow morning. In the Mean time Marianne is do really wel climbing hard mixed routes in Ouray. Cant wait to go out myself …

13/12/2012 To get more people in to ice climbing the NKBV is organizing workshops on The Hage Bever Icewall. Me and Marianne representing the Dutch Iceclimbing team where there to instructed the new climbers. Fitting some Petzl Sarken Crampon’s Making the Firsts Swings with the Nomic’s. Pictures: Reinier NKBV Want to do some real iceclimbing? …

The days are shorter the weather is getting colder. We are getting ready for the Ice climbing are you? Get stocked! UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour 2013 from UIAA – Mountaineering & Climbing on Vimeo. If you want to train in the Netherlands its possible ! Go to Monte Cervino Bergschenhoek for some tooling action.

After a stormy night, so bad that the tents didn’t really like it, the forcast was dry.. But the wind was a steady Force 8 to 10 with wind gusts up to a stunning 110 KM a hour. Exellent “Dutch” conditions.. So over 80 climbers of every level decided to show up at the drytool …

2012 Dutch Drytool Event registration 10:00 Opening: 10:30 “Snert” 12:30 Finals 16:00 Movie 18:00 Former Dutch Ice climbing team member: Elwin van der Gragt testing the qualification route’s 20 Routes  by: DvH & MvdS DvH Design warning sign “Helmet and Gloves compulsory !” More Information for this Event: here