Back to reality!
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
Eye of the beholder
Summer on Raven Crag, Langdale
Training for climbing
Crunchy Frog
What time is the last train?
After waking up to a beautiful morning, late as usual, I was keen to get out after two days cooped up in the apartment. After a hasty breakfast, we (Paul, Laetitia and Pete; Boris went to climb some ice somewhere on the glacier) drove to the train station to grab a train up to Montenvers. …
Punta Col de Varda, Misurina
Nobody told Bernie it was an abseil descent!! Bernie does a nice pitch, high on Punta Col de Varda. End of a perfect Dolomite day, Cinque Torre. What more can you say….??
Laetitia gets the Swiss Army knife out…
Laetitia contemplates a knife? (photo by Paul) Pete’s plan A today seemed to also be plan A for every beginner in the valley. We approached Valorcine and found it heaving with would be climbers. Every route was occupied by young students learning the ropes. Crowds of beginners! We managed to find a route that isn’t …
La Grande Dalle d’Amone
Yes this slab (sorry, wall, Terry) was “Grande” and great fun too. Although I think we got off route a bit at one point finding ourselves in the middle of very blank slab some way above the last protection! But that isn’t surprising, we had no guidebook, just Paul’s vague recollection of the route from …