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 ...This is a list of major peaks and ridges in the UK that are of particular interest for mountaineering, scrambling or rock climbing. I have marked the ones which I have climbed and I provide photos and GPS measurements of their summits, where they could be acquired.
Similarly to my lists of peaks of Australia and peaks and ridges of the UK, here is a list of summits of Spain.
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Highest mountain of continental Spain, in the Sierra Nevada.
Own measurement: N37° 03.200 W003° 18.693, 3475 …
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 scrambled up Mt. Rundle in Banff national park in Canada.
I walked the Overland Track, which is a pretty famous long distance hiking trail in Tasmania, Australia. This is a summary of the 8 days, in which I walked 131 km and covered nearly 160 km in total.
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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