Friday – travel “No, your car is too big for a normal parking place so you’ll have to pay €4,50 instead of €3,00 per day”. Our car is actually smaller and shorter then a modern T5, station or other larger car. It only looks bigger because of the campervan-box on the back. We refused to…
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……
A great impression of a super good day!↵ Use original playerPetzl Dutch Drytool EventBy Monte CervinoYouTube720p360p← ReplayXiThanks guys for putting this together :)
Hardly done with Expeditie Geluk I jumped into the next event. The organisation of the Petzl Dutch Drytool Event, or short: DDE.For over two weeks I slept on the couch in the bar of climbing gym Monte Cervino.I gave up my house in Rotterdam, and my parents lived too far away to drive to the…
We’re in de Dolomites for a couple weeks.Today a sign said ’40 C’ meaning it’s way to hot to climb. Even in shade it’s over 30 degrees.We found a internet connection in the public library, they said it was fast but their definition of ‘fast’ is quite different… It already took me two tries to…
The last week before real climbing starts again.It’s finally Sunny here in the Netherlands, making it feel like Summer.Summer fun All the stress of getting everything done in time also belongs to the Summer feeling I guess.Tax forms, invoices, MOT for my car(s), some work, a lecture for Outdoor, preparations for the Dutch Drytool Event, Expeditie…
Restday work, sharpening our tools[Marianne] Okay, so we climbed the long ice thing in they valley. Now it’s time for our original objective. Actually, I was confused with what the objective was. We talked so much about freeclimbing an old aid line, that I for some reason thought that was our objective.Dennis seemed more aware on what to climb. As…
The very inventious mobile icewall used for the speedclimbing demo in the centre of Meran.Quick thought: can’t we use this to promote iceclimbing?Rabenstein didn’t really go as planned.After a nice break in Arco I thought I was ready for the comp.But I guess the stress of making it in time to Rabenstein with a broken…
You win some you loose some. For me it felt like loosing a little bit and failing incredibly.”But for a Dutch climber you did really well” “You looked pretty strong there” “You’ll do better next time” “The others are so strong too” “But if you don’t reach the finals, please don’t be too disappointed” “Did…
Hi everyone.As always Dennis and I need money to have enough funds for our climbing (training, comps, trips, gear).So every year we have a big sale.See Dennis website for more details and e-mail him if you need anything you haven’t found on his site so far.
On the first day we drove straight to Vestrahorn to see if we could climb some trad multipitch there.I’ve been living in Iceland for some years and never climbed any trad or multipitch here and really regret it…So I didn’t knew where to find any of the right stuff.Sorry, want to write a whole story but…
Day one of our Iceland trip.We made it all the way,more then 1800km from France to Denmark. We’re waiting for the boat and found a perfect spot to camp :)In between running, sea-swimming, ‘WWII-crimpin’, 4WD Syncro driving and being bored because of the rain, we found some internet to upload some pictures of our trip.
Sometimes people ask me “How do you manage to always travel and climb? It must cost you loads of money…”I always reply that you just have to be dedicated.I’m not a paid climber, so I suppose I’m not a pro. But I just try to work with the things I have.I live cheap (anti-squat it’s…
Céuse :)CéuseLast week I drove Dennis back to his French hometown Crolles.And I stayed for another week.Not just in Crolles :)I had a mission: get back to Céuse. Céüse, Ceüze, Ceuze, Céüse, Ce… whatever, they can’t even write it themselves. (The cliff is called Céuse, the topo says Céüse, the roadsigns say Ceuze…)Gaetan, a French…
…or at least thats what we say in Dutch. Hirondelles, Swallows, Zwaluwtjes were flying low this week to catch the flies in Chateauvert.Showing our new Berghuas Dutch Iceclimbing Team downjacketsLast week I drove 925km South to Crolles, France. Again.I’m addicted to someone who lives there in a small campervan.The weatherforecast was bad, just rain, rain, wind and…
There I am again, back in ‘the low lands’. After a big weekend in the real mountains (Chamonix).I was fed up by being here, no climbing, no ice, no mountains. Just work. I needed to go out and I was reaaaally missing Dennis. He’s doing is traineeship at Petzl right now and is living in…
In China we met a very nice ‘person’: Lolotte. Lolotte is a frog travelling the world. She (?) meets climbers, visits famous climbing areas and sometimes she dares a climb herself :)We met her as well back in China. Want to become fan of Lolotte: check her Facebookpage
Monday is Dennis’ birthday. He asked me to bake a pie. “The one I always do, with the apples” he said.Oh, and if I could make of for his colleagues at work on Sunday as well. And…please, can I make one extra so we have some for the day after his birthday…So suddenly I was…
Stuff to think about on Dennis’ blog about using a single rope and a tag-line for pure ice routes.Linky-link here :)
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…