Bad internet, so not much news today :( No fast connection means no video’s… They say there will be news every hour on the site iceclimbing.kr Hopefully more news tomorrow! …and the Video :)
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Cheongsong
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South Korea pt.1
Aaahhh, finally there. After a long, long flight with transfer in ‘friendly’ Beijing we arrived en Seoul. It was pretty long to get all the way to Korea. Screaming baby for then hours, stress on Beijing airport, Dennis’ culture shock with a little Chinese guy washing his willy in the sink at the men’s lavatories, …
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South Korea!
Oh my…. was my first reaction when Tim (our coach from the Dutch Alpine Club, NKBV) told us we were going to South Korea! He managed to get enough together to send us all the way to South Korea for the first iceclimbing Worldcup of this season. So, on January 5th we’ll fly to Seoul …
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Iceclimbing workshops
Last week it was workshop time. Iceclimbing workshop time. As member of the Dutch national iceclimbing team you also have to represent iceclimbing to the ones who don’t know all the details of the ice yet. So thanks to Thomas and Tim we stood in the cold last week, in a positive way. The workshops …
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Iceclimbing workshop!
For the Dutchies who like to test the real ice! From the website of the Dutch alpine club, NKBV: Update: oeps, de eerste workshop zit al vol! Op donderdag komt de tweede :) De NKBV organiseert a.s woensdag (22-12) samen met Thomas Knoope een kennismakingsworkshop ijsklimmen. Deze workshop is bedoeld voor beginners die weinig of …
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Preparing for January
Pictures: the windmill I went to today to buy flour for home baked bread, my parents garden in the snow today. Yesterday, today and tomorrow we’re having snowy time. Over 15cm already and that really is a lot of snow, in Dutch terms… So the trains hardly drive, all buses are cancelled, the planes don’t …
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Iceclimbing in the Dutch national newspaper.
Yesterday Dennis was interviewed for yet another kind of media: Algemeen Dagblad. The result is a very nice article about Dennis and iceclimbing. The positive thing about the article is that the interviewer seems to understand the idea of climbing and doesn’t just see it as ‘dangerous adrenaline sports’ as most do who don’t know …
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Iceclimbing @Home
After the massive Championship wall in Bodegraven, we build our own little pinnacle at home.It was all melting around us, so there wasn’t much left when we finally had the time to try out the wall.But it was funny to climb at home in flat country Holland (:
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Dutch Championships Iceclimbing
Bodegraven was for the first time (evarrr) the scenery for the Dutch Championships Iceclimbing. Thomas Knoope had built an amazing pillar and the NKBV got to the idea to hold a competition on the ice. The first on natural ice. We were lucky with the weather, today it’s around +4 degrees Celcius, but at the …
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