• NK ijsklimmen 2018

    I was awake. It was around 5-ish. “Marianne…” The voice next to me said. Yeah, I’m awake too I answered. And before we knew it we started discussing the routes for the upcoming day: Dutch Championships Iceclimbing. Two qualification routes (flash) and one Grande finale. Should I take my other axes I wondered? That wood …

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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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  • Korea

      This week we flew all the way to South Korea for the second stage of the Iceclimbing Worldcup. We missed the first one (money/forced double events) in Bozeman, USA. So, this was our chance to do our ‘thing’. Dennis looking forward to the winter season at Schiphol airport. Beforehand we had quite some unfortunate …

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  • The Dutch mixed climbing season 15/16.

    For the last 5 years Verticallife has been organising the DDE (Duth Drytool Event). This way we create training facilities in the Netherlands and a bigger mixed climbing platform. This year the DDE at Monte Cervino was another succes with loads of new climbers joining the event and also new faces in the finals on …

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  • Fit at the start and then it gets canceled :(

    This evening was a romantic Dennis and Marianne evening.As Dennis really struggles with all his bad luck and his injured leg, I thought it would be good to go out for dinner.We discussed all kinds of things, like how nice the route Tomahawk is, and I wanted to see a picture.Got on the internet and… …

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  • Saas Fee Finals

    It’s Worldcup season. For a while already but I didn’t have the money to join the comps yet.  But there was no excuse not to go the the biggest and most difficult comp of the year: Saas Fee, Swiss.  Dennis, my boyfriend won the speed discipline last year so he had to defend his title.  …

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  • IWC Saas Fee

    As usual. Nervous. Already.Sigh… But thats apparently how it works with me and competitions. The only way to solve it is, as far as I know, become just much stronger then I’d need to be to compensate for the weakness that comes with the nerves. We missed the first two competitions; the first which was …

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  • Canada 2

    It’s been a while ago now since we were in Canada with the whole team. We climbed in the huge land for a couple weeks with Canmore as basecamp. Being Dutch and being a climber is a fairly strange combo.  As sports climber we have a gym in every city. Within 40km you can find …

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