Elbsandstein is different
This year’s annual meeting of the young alpinist teams (DAV-Expedkader) took place in the mysterious sandstone towers of Elbsandstein, Germany. The climbing is outlandishly different – other than sparse ring […]
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Piccolo Principe – Punta Larsei
A steep line in rotten rock, but at least miserably protected… unfortunately it wasn’t wet. Okay, to be honest, a really good adventure! The route is completely trad with very […]
La Beffa, Cason de Formin
Yesterday Rolo and I climbed “La Beffa”, a newer (2012) route by Massimo da Pozzo. Typical for his style the bolts were far apart from each other and being a […]
First alpine route in the Dolomites of the season
After a very snowy winter, spring and early summer together with Charlie we managed to climb the first alpine route of the season. As objective we chose a relatively new […]
The new women’s expedition team of the German Alpine Club, DAV-Expeditionskader
In mid June 12 motivated girls met in Chamonix to go climbing for a week. We started with two days in rock and ice, building belays and doing other safety […]
Some photos from an attempt on Fitz Roy’s north face.
Climbing a “roof mushroom”
Today is the fifth day in a row with avalanche risk 5 in the Dolomites, last Friday was the first day they ever announced that grade for this region. After […]
