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pecorino power

 Submitted by margerita
 on Mon, 15 November 2021 - 18:04

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Jean Bourgeois (second from right) comes to join Pat (left)

 

Di Fissure ( 4 photos below).

 

 

Hans DW in Albatros.

 

Bram

 

 

 

salbit

Submitted by margerita
 on Mon, 4 October 2021 - 22:45

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Pull Marine

 

The final. Time for Daïwel (Luxembourgish for devil). Time for the diabolic end dyno (just out of frame).

 

Slab jedi Ward sending Kobi Wan Kenobi on an afterwork evening session ( 2 Flône photos).

 

Ramses and Alana in Crack Roofie.

 

Barbara in Animals drums solo.

 

 

Phil going for Sabotage in Dave.

 

Hans in Platons Insel on the Atlantis rock in Höllental, Rax-Schneeberg, high above the Schwarza flow.

 

Petit Dru (lines) - (1985 reconstruction of Profit's 1982 solo of the American direct) ( 2 photos).

 

Goulotte Perroux-Profit, two alpinists on the ridge and a chough diving by.

 

Two duos approaching
Two duos approaching, left on the horizon the Gran Paradiso shows up. (click for larger view)

 

 

Green mountains all stumble atop each other

 

la vie en rose

Submitted by margerita
 on Sun, 30 May 2021 - 17:46

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Lumumba, route named after the African anti-imperialist activist who was assassinated in 1961 by peace-askewing decadent power cravers made powerful by Belgian authorities vulturing for Katanga's natural resources.

 

Sophie in the crux, sending Gonzo the Great.

 

Led it and sweat ( 2 Mozet photos above).

 

Choco Prince, Easter

 

Liuba in Philosoff

 

Wanterbaach welness

Submitted by margerita
 on Wed, 7 April 2021 - 07:50

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Aga in Phenix  ( 7 photos).

 

 

 

 

 

Samson valley

 

Right before the impossible send at the Sambre banks

 

Ourthe, friendly river Styx

 

 

ice climbing

Submitted by margerita
 on Sat, 13 February 2021 - 13:10

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Into Condroz, onto the bright path, the forbidden track

 

Tautavel

Submitted by margerita
 on Sat, 30 December 2020 - 18:52

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Up with the last light in La Grande Cheminée

 

Ben climbs Monte Oro (Our Handsome Friend Pavel).

 

Afterwork session (the projie)

 

Water solo home with Ramses, Tom and Dave.

 

Seven pitches up, sailing the Fälensee skies (Alpstein)

 

Schools give Western kids a view on the world, that is to say, a view reduced to giant-ass pixels the size of nations. Their territorial states are suggested as basic building blocks to understand geography. The goody-goody media follows.

Rivers can be an alternative basis to build up spatial knowledge.

Notice the Tagliamento river, the last Alps river of which the course has not been strained yet.

 

Geum Reptans above islands of ice

 

The white

Submitted by margerita
 on Mon, 3 August 2020 - 21:11

Alpes — the whites — Romans said of the snow-capped wall of mountains. Brightness obscures all detail of the dazzling colors of insects, foxes, lynxes and orchids. The Alps provide shadow in the heatwave that is modern life. Off the highway we tread babysteps to where all becomes bigger (or we become smaller) like Alice tiptoeing into Wonderland.

Lockdown in Luxembourg

 

Vertical free solo limit

Submitted by margerita
 on Wed, 29 April 2020 - 19:10

...

Mist, wet streets and rainforest. Pull Marine's blank wall is in good condition. Here we just topped out. (January)

 

 

 

Shine on you crazy limestone

Submitted by margerita
 on Wed, 8 January 2020 - 20:15

We leave the house to the steep empire of thick-leaved evergreens. Finale Ligure hides somewhere down, where medieval buildings squeeze through the valley. Thus Finalborgo reaches for Finalmarina, and Finalmarina for the sea which sure doesn't hide in the rocky foothills (Piedmont). Like true Ligurians, packed with Ferrero sweets, we go to rock.

 

Die Ringbolzen des Nibelungen

Submitted by margerita
 on Thu, 14 November 2019 - 07:01

Well after sundown we escape steep rocky slopes, out of the grip of beech trees, oaks and quartzite rock monsters. Southeastwards we will continue to follow that bustling blue vein down there, boding its chain of prominent cities from where we'll push through to the lands of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre and set foot in Odenwald's hills.

Ballerina slab Kurz und Knackig on home grounds

 

Wim lays his eyes on Altmeisterschreck (oldschooler's nightmare)

 

Toothless at the collapsed (= by 20th-century mine industry destroyed) Grottes Schmerling. In 1829 Schmerling made the first and northernmost find of a Neanderthal accompanied by Homo Sapiens fossils, marking the second acknowledged find ever of an old Homo fossil and the start of paleontology.

 

Dizzy heights

Submitted by margerita
 on Wed, 22 October 2019 - 22:10

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Hannes

 

A to Z of the well-informed climber

Submitted by margerita
 on Wed, 28 August 2019 - 06:42

Stop fighting the gravity of wisdom and let climbing knowledge come to you.

Koen and Tom, Luxembourg

 

Font

 

Cave uprising

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 4 July 2019 - 23:45

'Roof works co.’ tries to escape apocalyptic scenes. The company flees to the heart of climbing valhalla Condroz, where the south of Belgium is said to be gentle. But la douce Belgique is reckoned without Modave’s cave. Guided by the lights of fireflies they'll be fighting on arrival, struggling for survival.

Luxembourg

 

Shine bright like a dino

Submitted by margerita
 on Mon, 3 June 2019 - 21:17

The sinking sun colors her own path through the beech trees. All of a sudden two cars slam on the brakes as two deer walk over. We are about to set foot in a vivid village, shining like it's just been built. Indeed, we don't know where to look first, as we're drawn to a lush garden. Come along west of the Rhine along the verge of Pfalz and Vosges...

Siudrama

 Submitted by margerita
 on Fri, 17 May 2019 - 19:10

Us three return to the near-desert. Limestone cliffs turn into extraterrestrial monuments. Incontainable become the chunks of abandoned spaceship motherboards, devoured by all that grows. Today’s the day. Weeks into the infamous season — stonemeltingly hot! desolate! — we find abandoned Siurana reigned by cool sweeping breezes. We foresaw.

Ben and Hans in El Prado del Rey

 

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 2 May 2019 - 12:04

Frankenjura

 

Fabi

 

Submitted by margerita
on Fri, 1 March 2019 - 23:05

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Ice climbing in Belgium

 

Siurana

Submitted by margerita
on Tue, 4 December 2018 - 01:20

Into the Montañas de Prades...

Pomegranate garden of Eden

Submitted by margerita
on Sun, 18 November 2018 - 22:33

The day ends in fire, the sea's screaming red. 'Cross the coast there's darkness and the menace of pitch black land... until tiny lanterns glow up along which lone carlights gently bend.. Metal wings become feet, night becomes day and sun beams through plataan forests, citruses and flower bulbs. Once called Lycia by vanished people we'll call it Eden.

 

Hans DW

 

 

Hoa

 

 

Hans in the second crux of Aeroplane Klaxon, ready to link into Mona Lisa's cruxes. On the right arises Boulevard du Vol, which Arnould t'Kint finds and frees in 1981, with no difficulty grade yet to express its impossibility. Back then the elusive French 8th grade has yet to become considered a possible new level.

 

Jeunesse

 

Flight to Nice

Submitted by margerita
on Wed, 17 October 2018 - 22:03

I jump in, belaying Ben in projects, and Ben belays me on the go. Over the weeks we each send a series of new personal benchmarks. Kaboom! Time to team up for multipitches?

Glucose M1, beginning of le toit (the roof)

 

Mission Dibona

Submitted by margerita
on Wed, 26 September 2018 - 23:08

I open my work agenda. A lot of colored days are coming up. DIBONA BRAM they say.. Aha, the plan we made last winter: celebrating Bram’s PhD with a roadtrip into France with the elusive, high and pointy cherry on top: Dibona.

Hiding for the sun, north facing Donkey Kong (Grottes Schmerling).

 

 

 

Les Quatre Cents Buts (French film (1959) and slang for The Four Hundred Goes)

 

 

Thiebout tries to figure out Borderline near Berdorf (with an incredible send some time later)

 

Granitbiten at Skälefjäll

 

The long awaited Chamonix trip

Submitted by margerita
on Tue, 5 June 2018 - 17:22

..to Sweden... To the probably only place in the world where a small grocery store sells crack gloves, friends, nuts and hexes (the latter optimized in 1974 by the Swedish Tomas Carlström). We will find ourselves with no bolt in sight, no chain to clip, in a kingdom of pure trad.

 

Grotte du Brotsch

Veni, sendi, vici in the Modave trilogy

 

Three lizards

Submitted by margerita
on Sun, 6 May 2018 - 01:20

..

 

Finale Jardin Secret trilogie

 

Report Initiations

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 29 March 2018 - 17:18

LUAK Trophy’s flame passed on with the assistance of Liuba. The semester is off! In the dark wintery streets a light burns at LUAK's headquarters when lost Existenz-architects stumble in and find us stuffing the KULeuven Van with the settenbakken. So the story begins, a tale of rock initiations.

 

LUAK Wintermeet

Submitted by margerita
on Sun, 18 February 2018 - 00:07

Top Italia Arrampicata

Hans

 

 

Pieter

 

Calanques

Submitted by margerita
on Fri, 22 September 2017 - 21:48

Ever yearned for a thrilling climbing chronicle unfolding above the azure blue Calanques? Sigh no more! Especially for you dear readers, fanciers of fancily written reports, I will decently typ here in the utmost strive of eloquence my very own clearly written, yes, with delicate care presented, link to Wim's Calanques report. Others can click above.

 

 

 

 

 

Flemish:

 

Chill a l'aise met de ijsvijs

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 10 August 2017 - 12:18

Ge hebt interesse in een alpiene startstage die u een basiszelfstandigheid geeft. Ge stelt het uit. En dan moogt ge telkens passen als een paar mensen een zot alpien plan hebben of een speciale multipitch weten maar met gletsjeraanloop en moordlustige seracs. Doe maar zo'n stage (of andere stevige introductie).

 

 

f*ck berge tenzij blankenberge

Submitted by margerita
on Fri, 28 July 2017 - 15:14

Het is alweer enkele jaren geleden dat de Summermeet naar een alpiene bestemming trok. Nu is het zover: Chamonix. Dit jaar hebben we het KUL-buske, en nog goed lang zelfs, dus we rijden eerst naar La Berarde. We blijken niet alleen. (Fotoverslagje)

Eerste aprildagen met Sebastian, Brecht en Naomi.

 

Coldfingerweekend

Submitted by margerita
on Mon, 20 March 2017 - 16:32

Voor dag en dauw, als licht al aanbleekt op het lover, ga ik op pad. Ik weet wel dat jij op mij wacht. Ik trek de bossen door en trek de bergen over, ik heb te vaak ver van jou mijn dagen doorgebracht.

Kobe

 

 

Costa Blanca

Submitted by margerita
on Fri, 17 February 2017 - 16:06

We zijn goed op weg in de winter. De lesvrije week komt. We kiezen voor goedkope snelle vluchten, in ruime zetels, tussen bruingeschminkte glitterende bomma's. Jawel. Richting Benidorm. (delen I-VI + gsmfoto’s)

 

 

 

 

Professor Ivan and Pieter in Une saison en enfer, (re)bolted a few months ago by Flo and Félix.

 

Find Dave

 

 

 

 

Ailefroide

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 28 July 2016 - 11:59

Schapenwolkjes leken klimgrepen en een bende was al in Frankrijk rond Grenoble en Briançon. Ik moest tot dan werken. Mabon, toen wisten we het. Mijn auto werd gevuld als de kolenkachel van een stoomtrein, de koffer werd volgepuzzeld: koffer dicht.

 

Niels toont Marie Rose

 

trad bij de fransen

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 28 April 2016 - 11:22

EIKEBAH BOORHAKEN.. zeiden we... knuffelend met een paar sets nuts en friends. Het was tijd voor graniet en barsten. En laat de Zuid-Vogezen nu net op maar 1,2 Fontainebleau van Leuven zijn. Fotoverslag van een dik verlengd weekend:

 

 

coldfingerweekend

Submitted by margerita
on Wed, 16 March 2016 - 13:32

Leuven. We're on the eve of spring. It's sunny, friday and late. Students, back from class/working/PhD/.., have packed in two vans and a car. Tasks are divided. Driver, music maestro, midfingermanager, co-pilot, window orchestrator.. LUAK’s coldfingerweekend is about to begin.

 

 

El Chorro

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 11 February 2016 - 13:11

De lesvrije week is nog niet eens begonnen of een vliegtuig Zaventem-Malaga vertrekt in het holst van de nacht. Diezelfde dag nog, 's avonds, bolt een auto over bergflanken El Chorro binnen. Het zal nog ff duren voor we tegoei beseffen wat er allemaal gebeurd is. (lang verslag)

Einde Hungaria

 

coldfingerweekend

Submitted by margerita
on Wed, 18 November 2015 - 10:34

(pandemonium, iemand een echt verslag?)

 

 

verslag initiaties

Submitted by margerita
on Wed, 21 October 2015 - 18:34

(in afwachting van verslagen van La Douce France hoorde ik)

verslag Arco

Submitted by margerita
on Thu, 30 July 2015 - 09:44

Zwoele zomeravond. Fish are jumping out. Aankomst Arco. Na La Bérarde is er een tweede summermeet. Handig voor wie de eerste ook moest skippen wegens andere dringende trip. Ik voeg me bij de cordée van Alessio, Hannes en Wannes. Drie is geen getal om mee te zijn.