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The shizzle amongst the cold and the uncertain faith in climbing

December climbing is kind of a love-hate-thing to me. At home it is freezing cold or the projekt is covered with snow, or it will be covered the next day. As the afternoonclimber that I am, the [...] Read More

Simon Weill tied in to a rope! And dispatch an 8b+

For the first time in many years I have been at home for a summer. Usually I would prefer to be hanging out in cooler climes, such as Switzerland, Spain or England at this time of year. Mostly to [...] Read More

The Year That Passed - 2012

So the year passed by, just like that - or so it feels, now, afterwards, when I can do nothing about anything that happened but leaf through the memories and events in my mind.   To [...] Read More

No pain in Spain

Just had a wicked trip to Catalunya. We had just over two weeks in this climbing paradise with pretty much perfect weather. The first week was hot which is what we wanted after a terrible summer [...] Read More

And you can use a rope when you climb...

After nearly five years of no rope climbing (with a few exceptions) i've started again right before my Rocklands trip. Why now? Especially a few weeks before a bouldering trip? The answer is [...] Read More

New Found Motivation For Climbing

I wrote the following Blog about 2 weeks ago but for some reason didn’t get around to publishing it but the very sad news today of the death of Patrick Edlinger at the age of 52 only confirmed [...] Read More

My first 8a+ and the final hit in the Dolomites

Last fall, when I did the Swiss/Italian route on Cima Ovest leading every pitch ground up onsight, I knew it was only the beginning of something bigger. I knew I had to keep exploring the routes [...] Read More

Ticking Over

Between the showers and on the not too humid days I ve had a good few days out. Llandulas cave down in wales has provided a lot [...] Read More

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