„Wie geht es jetzt eigentlich weiter mit deinem Projekt?“ fragt weiterhin jeder Zweite. „Du bist ja noch gar nichts geklettert dieses Jahr.“ Doch, eine bin ich sogar geklettert. Am 28.06., die Scharnitzspitze. Und sonst?Mitte Juni war ich das erste Mal überhaupt alpenmäßig unterwegs seit Januar. Erstmal talnah reinkommen. Sei Poet, Zillertal, Friend 2,57 an der […]
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I always go for the extremes. I always have since I was a child. I loved cold water. I loved the idea of scorching temperatures, overambitious plans, and later, the cold. I loved things that took extremely long, or were extremely strenuous, or extremely forbidden. Things tend to bore me when they’re average. If I
Sechs Stunden sind vom Jahr noch übrig. Draußen knallt es schon die ganze Zeit.97 Tage am Fels und im Eis, 120 Klettertage insgesamt – eigentlich hätte das ja passen müssen. 3 ungeplante Biwaks, 17.450 Klettermeter, unzählige Höhenmeter, Zweifel und unendlich viele Stunden der Planung, Buchhaltung und Arbeit. Hätte ich gewusst, dass das Projekt so viel
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I’m taking a break from the project. For weeks everything has just been pissing me off.Why am I doing this? There is no sense in it, no meaning. There is no sense in climbing in general, obviously. This project is nothing but a random list of names that I’m trying to collect. But even if
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Moritz Veit
Wanderung 5:30 h
Versuch. Scheißtag…
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It usually hits you after your first coffee the next morning. At the latest when you sit down at your desk. It comes, seemingly, out of nowhere, and the happiness and euphoria you might have felt at your day out up until then disappear. Everything turns to grey. You feel sad, hopeless, bereft of a
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VISION VS. REALITY. After our last attempt, I made a bet with that guy who spotted our headlamps on the wall last time in February , that should he see our lights on the wall again, I’d owe him a beer… I lost. BEFORE:10:00 AM. “Traverses are fun! I love traverses! No need to be
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I was at a dead end. We were in deep shit. I had majorly underestimated the route, and as always, if you don’t show due respect to the mountain, the mountain kicks your butt.
I had known that during the last two pitches, but I really hadn’t wanted to descend that way. I felt that the safe way out was up. Darkness wasn’t dangerous in itself; I had climbed many routes in the dark. But darkness paired with icy wind and especially with the uncertainty of what was to come felt much different.
He said, “Let’s call them” and I didn’t really put up a fight…
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LIGHT – a film by Caroline Treadway » Finally someone started talking about this. Finally someone is also voicing these hard-to-ignore benefits like, “It feels so amazing when you feel so light, like water flowing over the rock”, which make it so easy and so desirable to go down that road. Because everyone who really
If there is anything that Corona has taught me: Don’t let anything get in between you and climbing. Or whichever it is you want. The harder circumstances are, the more determined I get to go out and climb. The day that they first closed the gyms, I drove to my home crag by myself, rope-soloed
