We free climbed a the old aid route  Hangikjöt (hanging sheep ham) in Fjallastakkanöf. A 90M route up to 7a+ difficulty’s and moving pillars/rocks. For  free climbing a difficult start, climb a small slap  no pro on to the “dancing” pillar. On top of this 20 M pillar we placed a 10mm  bolt for security (moving …

After some bad weather it was climbing time again. We climbed some more on Fjallstakkanof: Marianne made a really nice piece on here blog so Enjoy : http://lavinia-marianne.blogspot.com/2012/08/rvk-reykjavik-hofn.html

Laugavegurinn in a day :) 55-60km run and offraod driving from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo.

Iceland pt 4 new trad routes around Gimluklett from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. Barad-dûr (5c) , Lundi (6c) and Damocles Camping-fridge (6b)

Marianne was talking the last 2 years about a 7a+ route in Iceland that was bolted trad line..”Sundlaugarparty” (“Swimmingpoolparty” because of the water under the route). Finally the moment was there to give it a shot. We worked the route and both climbed it in the original style! A great route and such a pleasure …

Iceland pt 2 Day 1 and 2 Vestrahorn from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. We just arrived to Iceland. Time to discover all that can be done here. Marianne used to live in Iceland but never discovered any multipitch, trad and alpine stuff. (Really regret that!) It’s because of some Icelandic friends that She …

Iceland 2012 pt 1 The Boat from Marianne van der Steen on Vimeo. Hardly any climbing so far. Just waiting and almost died of boredom on the boat… But we’re there now and already found some awesome offroad and beautiful walls to climb :) To be continued!

My Internship is finished, Petzl colleagues thanks again for the great  experience and wonderful times! We made the 1800 Km from Crolles to Hirtshals Denmark and have a day to wait for the boat to Iceland. It took us 2.5 days of driving with the top-speed of 80 km a hour.. Welcome to Hirthals :p …

This is the last week of my internship after 5 months in Crolles its time to move on. A great learning experience and acquainted loads of cool people. Last week we had a very nice outing with the department. At noon Me and Simon gave the final presentation about hour internship in Petzl at Alain’s …