21 donderdag dec 2017
Posted in Andere, Mount Coach 6
2 weekends ago Etienne, Thibaut and I (Jozua) went to look if there was already some ice climbing to be done in the Queyras.
Oui oui, ambiance hivernale! Pic by Thibaut Lampe
14 donderdag dec 2017
Le Nose c’est Là voie icone du yosemite. Ce sont les milles metres que Brad Gobright et Jim Reynolds avalent comme petit déjeuner en 2h19min, la voie que Alex Honold a fait en solo dans sont defi “3 faces in a day” La voie que Lyn hill a fait en libre en 1994 à 5.14a, la voie que des centaines de personnes font chaque saison. Bref la voie la plus connue d’El capitan !
Lees verder
10 zondag dec 2017
Posted in Andere
Je me souviens la belle époque quand on etait encore jeune et innocent. Il y’a 7 ans Sam Vandendriessche et moi fesaient un trip d’escalade pendant trois mois sur toute la Côte Ouest de Vancouver à San Francisco. Fin Aout on arrive au Yosemite. Une bonne 40 degrees, plus de touristes qu’au Walibi sur un dimanche aprèm, plein d’emmerde avec la police, bref, on était dégouté ! Pour échapper de ce cirque on décide de se lancer dans Half dome. Un coin tranquil à l’ombre. Suite à un enchainement des évenements foireux(sac de hissage qui se coince, on se trompe de chemin, des Americains qui font de l’artif et qui n’avancent pas,..) on arrive à big Sandy ledge avec seulement la place pour une personne…. Et un sac de couchage pour nous 2. Le lendemain on arrive au sommet, épuisé ! et pour finir cette ascension en beauté on prend encore le mauvais chemin de descente. Lees verder
23 donderdag nov 2017
Posted in Andere
This little article appeared first on Alpinist.no
I first came to Trondheim to finish my masters in addition to find ice and just climb. Though I only stayed for nine months, my exchange shaped the years to come – and my life in general – more than I’d like to admit.
22 dinsdag aug 2017
Posted in Andere
I plant my axe into the snow and feel it sink in deep. Too deep. I hesitate a moment and assess my surroundings. From the looks of it I’m traversing straight into a complex crevasse system where the upper glacier tips and fractures over the edge. I hack through the snow and try to look inside to estimate whether or not I could walk over it. It’s a no-go, the snow bridge is thin and what I thought to be three successive cracks turns out to be the gaping mouth of a single massive crevasse.
Rasac Oeste and the hanging glacier
22 donderdag jun 2017
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Alpamayo, Cayesh, Cordillera Blanca, Denis Hoste, French Direct, Friedemann Koch, German route, Nelson Neirinck, Peru
Ever since my first visit four years ago, I promised myself I would go climb in Peru again. When Denis asked me if I wanted to join him with Friedemann on a trip to the Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash I didn’t hesitate for a second. A couple months of planning, training and a last-minute job installing pools later I found myself on a plane to Huaraz for almost 7 weeks of Andean madness!
09 donderdag feb 2017
Posted in Andere
Eindelijk! Na lange tijd ijsberen over het winterseizoen kunnen we weer het melkzuur uit de onderarmen wegschudden. Eergisteren, dinsdag 24 januari, verzamelden we om 17u in Gent en Hasselt en reden we non stop naar de Érins. Benoit, een van onze metgezellen, heeft het plezier meer dan een halve voetbalploeg als nageslacht te hebben, wat ons het voordeel geeft met een ruim busje tot daar te geraken. Na wat omrijden en verkeerde route inschattingen kruipen we in ons bed om 06u30 om er na 3 uur weer uit te rollen en moeizaam aan te zetten voor onze eerste waterval.
09 maandag mei 2016
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frank saeys, Ijsland, Sam Van Brempt, Ski-alpinisme, Tim Vanhoutteghem, tourski, Yannick De Bièvre
“Come in guys! Sit down, we have cold beer, warm fishsoup and fresh bread! You’re lucky, you just arrived and the Northern lights are shining!”
Wel, dat kan tellen qua ontvangst. Het is ergens rond middernacht wanneer we arriveren in Dalvik, in het Noorden van Ijsland. Onze huurauto zit afgeladen vol met skimateriaal en mijn drie partners in crime: Tim, Sam en Frank. Ons doel: skitoeren boven de Ijslandse fjorden.
En route
23 woensdag mrt 2016
With the good weather bubble persisting over the alps I felt it was time to go out again. Last week Marcello, Kivik and I found ourselves before the Grand Montets cablecar.
After the usual delay of sorting out gear out of a messy van we catched the ben at 9.30 leaving at 10 at the top. We skied down, I broke a ski pole and we started skinning up for the Face Nord des Courtes. Last few weeks we did some big cardio trips, they’ve made me stronger and now I can almost keep up with those 2 skitour rockets, but they still have more men in the engine room shoveling coal !
Copyright Kivik François
04 vrijdag mrt 2016
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Aviemore, Cairngorms, coire an t sneachda, Denis Hoste, fingers ridge, fluted buttress direct, Friedemann Koch, haston line, hidden chimney direct, mixed climbing, Mixte, original summer route, Scotland, the lamp, Winter Climbing
A couple of weeks ago me (Denis Hoste) and Friedemann Koch went on a trip to the north of the UK, for some mixed winter climbing. To keep the costs low, we would travel with my van (and ferry) which would also be our accommodation for those 8 days. Conditions during the month of January were so-so, with lots of new and fresh snow, so all that the rocks needed to get in good nick were some thaws and then some refreezes. The classic ‘good conditions’-cycle of thaws and refreezes, you know. The end of January saw a lot of those thaws, but unfortunately, not a lot of refreezes. In fact, temperatures were just a little too high which caused for rainfall instead of snowfall which poured all the snow away. Then the waiting game began for a new batch of snow, and again high hopes of a good thaw and refreeze.
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