Author Archives - Patrick Gebert

Fairplay

On Wednesday, we used the last daylight for a short climbing session at the Retschelfels with Chris and Flo. Coming back to the Retschel was part of a deal between Flo and me: Coming back over and over again until both of us took down ‚TNT‘ (8b+). I did it last time, so it was Flo’s…

Ceüse

A lifetime dream for every climber – this is how a French newspaper described a trip to Ceüse. And indeed it is a wonderful place to be and to climb: an over 1000m long rock wall, about 200m high and with hundreds of high-quality sport climbing routes. It’s placed on a 2000m mountain and the…

TNT

‚TNT‘ (8b+) – a short but super steep route with some really tricky moves. It’s one of the benchmarks in the Palatinate and after climbing ‚Mekka‘ (8b) at the beginning of the year, this was the next step. The first time I tried TNT was some years ago after climbing ‚Gamba‘ (8a) and ‚Mamba‘ (8a+)…

Romania

Have you ever been to Romania for sport climbing? Probably not – whereas Spain, Southern France or Greece are well-known climbing areas, Romania is a much more exotic climbing destination. So the idea of doing a climbing trip to Romania fascinated me from the very beginning. It took us a whole day to get to…

Border Crossing

The Palatinate and the Vosges are the next climbing areas from Karlsruhe with hundreds of small rocks and secret climbing spots. We have been a lot of times in these areas, but there are still a lot of rocks I haven’t seen so far. One of them was the „Krappenfels“ next to Lutzelbourg – a…

Rätikon

The Rätikon in the east of Switzerland has some of the hardest and well known alpine routes in the Alpes. The most famous are „Silbergeier“ (8b+) and „Wogü“ (8c). I was excited to see this place when we went to Switzerland with our climbing team Felskader BW last week. We arrived at Wednesday night after…

Gorges du Tarn

There are many good climbing spots in southern France, and one of the best is maybe the Gorges du Tarn. I always wanted to visit this place and last week we did so. The Gorges du Tarn is a beautiful valley deep in the south of France and it took us about ten hours of…

Franconia

The Frankenjura – one of the most famous and historical climbing areas of the world. Last week it was time for the first trip to the Frankenjura since nearly one year. We travelled with Sven’s camper, which is his pride and joy. The camper is a really huge vehicle, it’s really old with his 41…

Kathedrale

On last Sunday the weather forecast was perfect, so Magda, Markus, Marcel and I went to Lämmerfelsen near Dahn in the Palatinate. There are some cool classic routes like „Batman“ (7a+) or „Kathedrale“ (7c). „Batman“ is a tricky sloper rail followed by some powerful moves in black sandstone. It ist tricky to place your feet…

In the valley

Last Saturday our climbing team Felskader BW went to the Donautal together with Stefan Weber from EO Films. There was still snow on top of the hills and our favourite sector was wet, so we decided to go to the ‚Drei Zinnen‘. After warming up Ole and I decided to check out ‚Freiflug‘ (8a+) –…