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Wanterbaach welness

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

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Aga in Phenix

 

Samson valley

 

Right before the impossible send at the Sambre banks

 

Ourthe, friendly river Styx

 

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 Our Handsome Friend Pavel

 

The strawberry tree tales

Submitted by margerita
 on Tue, 17 November 2020 - 07:26

We head towards the eastside. We listen to incredible stories of the man that gives us refuge before we search for shadows in sundrenched "least developed" Ogliastra. What an honour to greet Sards on land rising dramatically up from the Mediterranean in very own green colors, as we're shown a path under 1000 year long wrenched and torn trees.

Afterwork session

 

Water solo home

 

Sailing seven pitches up the Fälensee skies

 

Geum Reptans above islands of ice

 

The white

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

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Topping out Al'lègne via Pull Marine's blank wall

 

 

 

Shine on you crazy limestone

Submitted by vincent
 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 vincent
 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

 

Amphitheater in the volcanic Eifel

 

Toothless at the collapsed (industrially destroyed) Grottes Schmerling

 

Dizzy heights

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

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A to Z of the well-informed climber

Submitted by vincent
 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 vincent
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 vincent
 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 vincent
 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.

Sam

 

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

Frankenjura

Fabi

 

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

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Ice climbing in Belgium

 

Siurana

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

Into the Montañas de Prades...

Pomegranate garden of Eden

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

Airy kilometers below, seas scream in red at day's fiery end. We cross a coast into black (dubbed hostile) land until tiny lanterns glow up along which lone carlights gently bend. When wings become feet and night becomes day, sun beams through plataan forests, over citruses and flower bulbs. Once called Lycia by vanished people we'll call it Eden.

 

 

 

 

Aeroplane Klaxon and on the right Boulevard du Vol, found and freed by Arnould t'Kint in 1981, with no grade to express its difficulty yet.

 

Jeunesse

 

Flight to Nice + Prophets of free climbing

Submitted by vincent
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 vincent
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

 

 

 

Les Quatre Cents Buts at l'Éléphant (allusion to a French 1959 film and slang for The Four Hundred Goes)

 

 

Thiebout tries to figure out Borderline near Berdorf

 

 

The long awaited Chamonix trip

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

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Finale Jardin Secret trilogie

 

 

Report Initiations

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

Top Italia Arrampicata

 

Hans

 

 

Pieter

 

Calanques + Alpine history

Submitted by vincent
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.

 

 

Chill a l'aise met de ijsvijs

Submitted by vincent
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 vincent
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

 

Coldfingerweekend

Submitted by vincent
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 vincent
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

 

Find Dave

 

 

 

 

Ailefroide

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

(pandemonium, iemand een echt verslag?)

 

 

verslag initiaties

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

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

verslag Arco

Submitted by vincent
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.