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…
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…
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…
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…
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+) –…
On Monday morning Flo asked me to go to the “Riesenstein” for a boulder session in the evening. Actually, I was completely destroyed after nine days bouldering in Switzerland. I had no skin left on some of my fingers and had fixed them with glue in the last days. But the weather was perfect and…
Riverbed – a pretty long boulder problem next to the river in Magic Wood graded with 8b. Actually, it was not even my plan to try something in this grade. In the last weeks, I had a lot of stress at university, reduced the time of training and didn’t feel in shape. On the other…
On Monday we drove over the Alpes to Chironico on the south side of the Gotthard pass to escape the snow. We spent the whole day in the warm sun resting from the last days in Magic Wood. On the next day we tried some old projects – Max did an old 8a boulder problem…
It was last year on our Felskader Trip to Iceland when I met Max Räuber – a funny, super strong boulderer from Erlangen- for the first time. It was a nice time in Iceland and I was looking forward to the next climbing trip with Max. And because Max is super scared of rope climbing, we…
Two years ago Flo and I checked Mekka out for the first time. Mekka – the most iconic 8b in the Palatinate and an amazing line in a 20m overhanging shield at the south side of the Nonnenfels. It’s one of the lines you will all in love with when you see it for the first time….