Some people just love sun, warm weather and a stroll around the village. I just can’t wait to climb again! We have a rest day today. Which means being bored all day: baking a pie with Cheongsong-apples, reading Donald Duck, knitting Dennis’ sweater, sleeping a bit, eating the pie, washing clothes, taking a shower, drying …
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Weather issues
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Seoul, Beijing, Frankfurt and Kandersteg: from rice to nice
Today, Kandersteg, after a big week of travelling. There was hardly any ice left, it was even so warm that we could climb in a top! Here my report of the last days in Korea and China and the iceclimbing Worldcup… Going abroad is always something for me. It’s a must. Getting to know different …
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10th and 10th and 12th
Things can always be better. You can always ‘want’ more and be disappointed. That’s how I felt by not reaching the finals in lead and speed. But, for a start of the competition season it’s not bad at all!
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Semi Finals!
And again, a very bad internet connection. I stole the cable from the media-tent (one internet connection for more then a hundred (!!!) media (tv, newspapers, radio…) But nevertheless…we’re both in the semi-finals! I even managed to get to the difficult semi-finals in the speed climbing! I landed 12th after many Russians and Koreans, ranking-wise …
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Cheongsong
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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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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