The landscape around the Ligurian Riviera is characterized by its wooded hills, steep cliffs, and the blue sea and attracts bikers, hikers and climbers from all the world every year. There are hundreds of crags around Finale Ligure and the area can look back to a long climbing history. In the last years, the areas…
Bürs in Vorarlberg (Austria) offers excellent endurance routes in steep conglomerate overhangs. As the conglomerate rock offers rich possibilities of holds, it most likely will be the lack of endurance that kicks you out in these endless long routes. As everyone praised this area to the skies, it has been a long time on the…
With the routes ‚The face‘ and ‚Kanal im Rücken‘ climbing history was written in the Altmühltal as it were the first routes in the grades 8a+ and 8b in Germany. The Altmühltal around Essing not only known for its technical climbing but also for its beautiful landscape. Due to the incoming cold weather, we decided…
Psyched from the trip to Magic Wood, we were hungry for more. The weather forced us to move to the Southside of the Alps to escape the bad weather on the Northside. So we switched our planned trip from Magic Wood to Chironico in Ticino. A good choice: bouldering in Ticino on the warm and…
Magic Wood became one of the most popular bouldering spots in the Alps in the last years. The unique density of outstanding boulder problems in all grades and the familiar atmosphere on the camping makes this small spot sp special. The location at a relatively high altitude in the Swiss Averstal makes it a perfect…
Verdon is one of those places where climbing history was written 40 years ago: in the 1980s the Gorge du Verdon was the place to be and the worlds best climbers pushed the limits of climbing further establishing some of the hardest and most visionary multi-pitch routes of the world. Photos of the steep walls…
Europe provides a higher density of amazing climbing spots than any other continent. Within a few hours of driving, you can easily visit a bunch of unique places for bouldering, sport climbing or alpine climbing. As I see big journeys by plane more and more critical, I wanted to refocus on those crags around us…
Having some free over Whitsun, Caro and I were looking forward to doing some multi-pitch climbing because Caro never did any before. The actual plan was to climb a wall in the Alps, but we had to change our plans: the winter has been extraordinarily long in the Alpes and most of the huts were…
A few years ago, I had the big dream of climbing well enough to climb a route graded 8b. Bene, a friend from Karlsruhe, recommended a route in Frankejura which was called „Plan B“. It was intended to be my very first route in this grade. Now, a few years and after climbing a lot…
Chironico in Switzerland is somehow a love-hate for me. It’s a wonderful spot to spent time bouldering and the boulder problems are excellent. And even though I did quite a lot if boulders there in the last few years, I struggled a lot with the style there like nowhere else. But as you should always…