While preparing our holiday and travel plans for 2024, I decided to look at what countries I visited in the past to see what interesting places we might have missed. The easiest way to do that is using one of the freely available countries or places visited websites. I chose …
more ...Here is a simple comparison of some of the bouldering and climbing gyms that I visited recently. The list is sorted by decreasing boulder or climbing surface and number of routes or problems. I personally visited each of the gyms at least once and typically several times. The ranking is …
more ...Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2 sucks, as we experienced ourselves recently! It is best to avoid getting it if you can.
When a close family member first contracted it in late 2021/early 2022 despite being triply vaccinated, we were extremely anxious and worried. One factor contributing to …
more ...When I first started rock climbing in Australia back in 2013, there was a bit of unfamiliarity with the names of tools and techniques that I had used for many years in my home country, but of which I knew only their German names. As a result, I often had …
more ...I have been climbing, hiking and doing via ferrata a lot in the Elbsandstein mountains recently. I give a short overview of Saxon style climbing and a summary of the main via ferrata in the region.
The Elbsandstein …
more ...In January we went ice climbing in Berlin at Der Kegel.
To do ice climbing, you usually need a frozen waterfall or a glacier. At least you typically should be in some form of alpine setting. Here in Berlin, we do not have all this …
more ...This is a report of our climbing trip to the Frankenjura, which is one of Germany’s most well-known rock climbing areas. We stayed in the small town of Schlaifhausen.
At the end of June, we went on a …
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