Dschungelbuch

War heut mit Tom und Denise im Dschungelbuch, war voll geil. So fein in der Sonne, überhaupt nicht kalt, obwohl es eigentlich nur so um die 5°C gehabt hat. War jetzt echt schon länger nicht mehr draußen Klettern, dem entsprechend hats mir auch getaugt! Ist schon was ganz anderes als in der Halle.
Link betreffend der Bedrohung des Klettergebiets durch den Steinbruch: Rettet das Dschungelbuch

Dschungelbuch 2007-11-28

Nachher waren wir dann noch im Kino und haben uns Free Rainer angeschaut. Hat mir gut gefallen, kann ich euch empfehlen. Geht darum wie die Medien uns manipulieren wollen, ein paar kommen drauf und zetteln ihre kleine persönliche Revolution an.

UPDATE: War heut schon wieder im Dschungelbuch! So geil! Diesmal war ich mit dem Marco.

summer 07

I told you that after my trip to pakistan I climbed in Italy and I was about to leave to France. So what did I really end up doing with the rest of my summer?

Arco 2007-08

Well my plan worked out quite good. I went back to Grenoble and climbed with Cyrille and Dave in Céüse. Then I did an amazing multi pitch route in Omblèze with Dave. After that I went to Chateauvert with Dave, we climbed a couple of days there and did a multi pitch in the Gorges de Verdon; Luna Bong - a classic.

Céüse 2007-08

Omblèze, Hirondelle des Faubourg 2007-09-04

Luna Bong, Verdon 2007-09-08

Dave went back to his new home, Grenoble, while continued to go further south. I went to Adrien's place in Nice. Adrien was training for the World Cup in free diving. Free diving means breath-hold underwater diving with various activities, in the competitions they try to go as deep as possible. So I joined him twice. It was amazing to watch him and his friend Guillaume train they go so deep and make it look so easy. Vision was really good so I could see them descent for quite a bit but nevertheless they disappeared into the darkness. I kept looking down, waiting for them to reappear, for ages it seemed to me. I was far from holding my breath long enough to watch, while I simply floated on the surface. They went to over 50m without fins, whereas I was struggling to get to 13m with the cable.
Interesting sport. It was not holding my breath that was limiting me to go deeper, which would have expected, but it got hard to equalize and bear the pressure on my lungs. It's really hard to explain. As you go deeper the air in your lungs gets compressed, you can feel that in a bizarre way. You feel the your chest getting squeezed and get stressed out, which makes things even worse. Everybody told me to relax, surprisingly that worked. You have to avoid getting tensed, stay calm and relax all your muscles, closing your eyes helps as well.

Well of course that wasn't all we did in Nice, we also went climbing (you ought to be surprised here!). We've been to the Gorge de Blavet, Col sur Loup, Gorges du Loup, and Baou de Saint-Jeannet. I did my first 7a flash there, odly enough on my sixth consecutive day of climbing.

Gorges du Loup 2007-09-15

Baou de Saint-Jeannet 2007-09-10

After that I went to Spain, I stopped by chez Fanny in Avignon, checked out that lovely town by night with her and moved on to Andorra, where I wanted to do some shopping (climbing equipment of course) but ended up not buying a single thing. Interesting country though, they got a very special architectural style there. And every house in a town looks alike, very homogene. One town especially cought my attention as all the houses had flowerpots in front of every single window they also had huge flowerpots in the street and everywhere the same red flower. Sadly I've no clue wich kind, but it was very pretty.
In Spain, well in Huesca to be precise, I met Willy, Clari, Dani, Javi again and got to know some of their friends. We did some bouldering, climbed in Rodellar and another small crag, have to ask the guys for the name again. Great climbing but not as much as I would have wanted to. We had to chill and hang around. Did my first 7a Onsight in Rodellar. Nice!

Rodellar 2007-09

I stayed there for a week and then I went back to Grenoble. I climbed at la Balme de Yenne with Pierre-Alain. The weather was bad so I went south again with Clarisse and Dave. We climbed in Orpierre and the Calanques, where poor Clarisse dislocated her shoulder. Dave's photos here.

Went back home, just in time to start my courses at the university in Innsbruck.
I really had a great time.

Topo Khaplu, Pakistan

Je me suis évanoui! is the name of a route Romain Girault and I established in Khaplu (Kghaplu), Baltisan, Pakistan. It was the first time I did a first ascent of a route - a real adventure. Moreover the route was quite difficult, we gave it a 6b and there were to aided moves A1 that I couldn't free climb. If I would have had the choice I wouldn't have chosen a route that difficult for my first establishment, but hey that's the catch you don't know what to expect - you stand in front of about 300 meters of rock that has never been climbed before, you got no information at all. I'm glad everything worked out in the end, wasn't a walk in the park.

I lead all the pitches in traditional style, meaning that I used friends and stoppers to protect the route, no bolts 'n spits.
For more details and info: Link to the Topo
Topo images

Plans for the rest of summer 07

Hey everybody!

Sorry, still didn't find the time to write about my trip to Pakistan. Romain posted quite a bit on his blog, so if you know French check it out.

So what did I do since I came back? Well, I spent a couple of days in Grenoble, climbed a bit. Threw all my stuff into my car and moved to Salzburg, Austria. Threw all my stuff into my parents house (they were very delighted to see so many bags and shit lying around everywhere). Spent some time with my family, which I haven't seen in a long time. Climbed a bit in Salzburg.
Threw all my stuff in the car moved it to Innsbruck, where I could move into my old apartment - so lucky, that made things so much easier. Climbed a bit in Innsbruck.
Went back to Salzburg, had to give away my car, because it didn't pass the technical inspection. Too rusty - repairing it would be too expensive. Apparently nobody wants to buy it in Austria, so it's probably going to be sold to russia.
Got a new car !! (well, :-P new to me) Big up for my parents for helping me out :D
Went to Arco, Lago di Garda, Italy to meet Erik the Viking and Petra Catalina. (By the way thanks to the Belgian for recommending me the Monty Python movie. Good one! How did your marriage go? Best wishes to you three!). Climbed a bit in Arco. Got to know Stefano and Alberto, two nice guys from Arco, climbed with them.
Next stop was Graz, where I climbed with Judith, Georg and Natti.
Now I'm back in Innsbruck, preparing my trip to France and Spain. Going to go to Céüze tomorrow, then Nice and around southern France.
On 18 September I'll be in Rodellar, Spain - climbing with Willy, Dani and probably some more Spaniards.
End of September I gotta go back to Innsbruck. That leaves me about 5 weeks of traveling around and climbing.

I would have loved to go to Norway to climb with Erik the Viking there, but the flights are quite expensive. It's got to be another time.
The Frankenjura with Jana and Ludwig will be postponed to a long weekend in fall, looking forward to it.

Those are my plans for now - if you wonna join me somewhere, give me shout (well maybe calling or mailing is better). If you're somewhere not too far let me know maybe I'll stop by...
Try calling me on my French cell phone first, then the Austrian number, it is more likely that i got the French SIM card in my phone.

Islamabad

Got back to Islamabad today, which leaves me 2 days to recover and visit the town. I just weighed myself and was shocked to learn that, after 2 weeks of trekking and severe diarrhoea, I lost 8 kilos.

Everything went fine and I enjoyed myself very much. Sorry, but I don't have the time to tell stories right now. I'm going to write up a report with Sylvain when we get back to Grenoble and put some photos online.

Greets!

photos of me, how boring is that?

By request I added a photo album with pictures of me. I threw in some random pics; some are older, some are newer, some are funny...
enjoy

Me

Chamonix, envers des aiguilles

J'ai passé un weekend génial à Chamonix avec Jordi et Mariana - nous sommes aussi connu comme "la cordée international". On a vraiment eu la chance avec le météo, il faisait beau tous le weekend et quand nous sommes partis il a commencé de pleuvoir. On et monté au refuge envers des aiguilles samedi matin et a midi on a attaqué une grande voie de 350m en terrain d'aventure. C'était magnifique: le meilleur granit, les fissure, les coincements, les écailles, les dalles, les friends, les coinceurs, les hex (chez nous ils ont un surnom rigolo: cloche de vache)... Incroyable. Le deuxième jour, pareil! encore une voie magnifique qu'on n'a pas fini, parce qu'on ne voulait pas rater la dernière funiculaire.
C'était le meilleur truc que je pourrais faire pour tester tous mon nouveaux matos que je viens de recevoir. Tout as bien marché! C'était parfait.

Voila les photos:

Envers des Aiguilles 2007-06

J'étais déjà la-bas en septembre 2006 avec Heidi et Pierre. voila les photos, ils sont sur picasaweb dépuis longtemps:

Envers Des Aiguilles, Chamonix 2006-09-24

Plans for summer 07

Well well... My plans for this summer:

• Stay in Grenoble until the end of June
• go directly to Pakistan for some mountaineering
• come back end of July
• move to Innsbruck
• spend some time at home, Salzburg
• climb all over Europe (we'll see about that)

Pakistan: Trek and climbing in the very north, Karakoram, with Pierre, Sylvain and Romain.

Climb all over Europe: I'll start classes in October, so I'll be free in August and September. I thought about traveling with friends in Europe. No precise plans were made, I don't know where I'll go nor with whom. If you want to come along, please let me now!
I dreamed about Norway/Sweden, Germany (Frankenjura), France, Spain... I'm open to suggestions

Calanques & Châteauvert con los españoles

He pasado un fin de semana genial con Diego, Guille, Willy, Dani, Luis, Clara, Heidi, Pierre-Alain y Irina! Todos nos fuimos a Châteauvert para escalar, increíble, me encanta este sitio! La organización era muy española ;), era una maravilla que hemos comido algo caliente. Que difícil es despertar los españoles, bueno especialmente Willy! Además realicé que mi hermano Felix es muy español ;o) A ver los fotos:

Châteauvert 2007-05

Después cogimos los carros (no son coches tío) para ir a los Calanques al lado de Mairseilla. PSYCHOBLOQUE!! (Deep water free soloing) Es todo que digo. PSYCHOBLOQUE!!!!
Muy chido! Así se dice 'puta madre' en México, pinches españoles ;o)
Los fotos: (ya faltan las fotos de los otros...)

Calanques 2007-05

Dani started writing a blog as well! Check it out

Mont Aiguille

Erik wrote a funny post on his blog about our trip to the Mont Aiguille!
Check it out

Châteauvert Video

I uploaded another video to YouTube. This time Dani captured me on camera when I red pointed my most overhanging route so far. David belayed me and did an amazing job in instructing and motivating me throughout the route. It's a 6c+ called Tintinguette in Châteauvert. A fantastic route! It starts off with some pretty hard moves, very technical, with a difficult dead-point into a two finger pocket. Then I take a short rest and get into the most powerful move. A very long move in the roof, where I have to get further and further right on a bad hold, till it finally gets good enough to continue. Then straight up into the hole in the ceiling where I jam my knee, to take a rest before the final moves. I love the hole, feels so great when you know you've done the hardest moves and can take a rest with your feet in there and you hanging out of that orifice. After a short rest I get out of the hole, only a few moves to go...

Fifoxtasy on YouTube!

I uploaded my first video to YouTube!



It's a video about me trying to climb a 7a in "La Balme de Yenne". Dani belaying me. Willy as cameraman. JB and Willy motivating me with lots of "Allez!" and "Geht scho". Willy pretending to motivate me some more in German LOL!

Châteauvert

It's been a while since I put the Châteauvert pictures online, but I forgot to write something about it. Well it's one of the best crags I've ever been to, that's for sure! Dani and I went there from Grenoble and met David and Dodo who came all the way from Austria just to climb there. We wanted to leave Grenoble at 18:00, Dani told me he'll pick me up, but in the end he was 4 hours late. I know, I'm always late as well, but he's even worse ;-) but there is another thing I have to add: He is spanish, I should have known. lol don't take me too serious on this one :D

UPDATE: I added the photos Dani took to the album

Châteauvert 2007-04

Another great climbing spot Pierre-Alain showed me is La Balme de Yenne. Not to far from Grenoble and overhanging, you can even climb there when it rains. Here are some photos

La Balme de Yenne 2007-04-24

Photos of Pont de Vence:

Pont de Vence 2007-04-21

And Pictures of Les Saillants de Gua:

Les Saillants de Gua 2007-04-17

Glésy

War vorgestern in Glésy klettern, das wahrscheinlich landschaftlich schönste Klettergebiet in der Umgebung von Grenoble. Muss unbedingt nochmal dort hin wenn es richtig heiß ist, dann werde ich mich zur Erfrischung unter die Wasserfälle stellen, ein schönes Platzl zum Grillen wäre auch da... Leider ist der Fels ein bisschen brüchig, aber trotzdem ganz interessant zum Klettern.

Glésy 2007-04-03

Rasiert habe ich mich inzwischen auch! Vielen dank für eure Votes, wer noch nicht abgestimmt hat, kann das natürlich noch nachholen um mir seine Meinung zu sagen.

zaches büdl

INNSBRUCK
Hohe Berge. Starke Stadt.

Gebts euch des! Gefunden ab ich das Poster im Krankenhaus von Grenoble, das hängt dort einfach so ungeniert herum. Volle zach. Vor allem der Spruch ist ein Wahnsinn.

Should I shave?

Hey everybody!

I got a fun thing for you to do today! Since I didn't shave for a long time and some people (Philippe!) keep buggin' me about it, I wanted to know what the rest of you think. Please vote in the poll i created! If you feel like I didn't provide the right answer for you please let me know or leave a comment on this blog entry.

Fifoxtasy's Voting Box Should I shave? You look awful! Please shave. I think you should. You should trim it. I don't give a flying fuck... I would rather not. Don't! Keep it as it is. Don't! Let it grow even longer. View Results

Update: I Shaved. You can still vote to let me know your opinion, if you like.

La Grave - La Meije

de wochn is jo wirkli nu amoi da winta zruck kemman, obwoi ea heia soweso ned wirkli do wor. i heddats ned globd. engstöd wor i a übahaupt nima drof, i wor scho mea of kraxln un so... najo, jez is ma fost a bisal schwa gfoin mi zu motivian. oba i woa don om mitwoch doch nu obn in 7 laux zum powdern, foi geil woas. sicht wor ned so, jez hob i a kane fotos gmocht, najo filächt wor i a so geil ofn pulva dos i ned dron denkt hob.

heid wor i mid ana menge leid (Verena, Karin, Pierre, Erik, Petra, Alex and Hokun) in La Grave. do hobens nua ane gondel und an tellalift, präparian tuans nua a klans pistal nebn am tellalift. auffigean tuats of 3550 - heads so scho amoi gonz guad o.
oba eigentli woan mi ned so wirkli begoastad, wei s do ned gnuag gschneid ghobt hod und scho ois zaspuat woa. jezad wor de easte obfoart tsiemli müsom. don homma scho zuam schimpfn ongfongen - wia teia des is, wia weid wegga vo grenoble, wos dea schne fia a schas is un dos do fü zfü leid son. don homma oba godseidonk nu wos gseng wosn tog im endefekt gret hod. os hod scho zach osgschod un mia hobn ned gwisst wia ma do hi kummt oda obs don ibahaupts god. zum glik worn i un de verena stua (+ motiwiad) gnuag dos mas probiad hom, a one de ondan (wor e bessa a so wei es wor ned lächt). sin hoid au da hintasetn fo unsam projekt auffi un hom ghofft dos ma de richtige schoatn findn domid ma of de ondane setn kemman un dos des ibahaupt forbor is, wei so gonz sicha woan mia uns do ned. najo noch am klan hadscha fo ana hoibn stund oda so (3500m gspiast scho) worma durtn. do homma don e glei gseng dos des scho iagendwia gen wead. beim eastn stickal (traveasn) deafats hoid ned foin, don kummt a foi da stale hong, iba de rondspoitn afn gletscha un do gats don e dohin, nua doafst hoid ned zweid zua de spoitn zuawi. Glacier du Rateau hod des ghassn, fois wen intaresiat. weis so sche wor hommas klorarweis nu a zwoats moi gmocht! desmoi mid da karin undn pierre. wia gsogt, des hod echt an tog gret, sunst warad i scho gschaid entaischt gwesn vo La Grave.

La Grave 2007-03-24

Die Vermessung der Welt

Lese gerade das Buch "die Vermessung der Welt" von Daniel Kehlmann. Gefällt mir bis jetzt ganz gut, und heute bin ich auf einen Satz gestoßen den ich hier zitieren will.

".., ob je ein Tag kommen würde, an dem Menschen miteinander umgehen könnten, ohne zu lügen."

Der Protagonist denkt oft darüber nach, wie die Welt in der Zukunft sein werde. Seine Gedanken sind sehr bestimmt, lassen keinen Raum für Zweifel, dadurch wirkt der Zweifel im oben stehenden noch stärker.

Update: Artikel zum Thema Lügen auf ORF.at

Update: Hab das Buch inzwischen fertig gelesen, kann es weiterempfehlen. Humorvoll und intelligent. Nett zu lesen, aber irgendwie fehlt der Höhepunkt. Dem Leben der beiden Hauptfiguren sind abwechselnd Kapitel gewidmet, also erwartet man eine Art Höhepunkt zu dem Zeitpunkt an dem sie sich begegnen. Dieser bleibt jedoch aus, es plätschert weiter nett dahin wie bisher, nicht schlecht, aber auch nicht spektakulär. Außerdem fehlt ein Ende, nein das stimmt nicht, es ist schon da, nur sind dann nach dem Ende noch ein paar Seiten angehängt, die förmlich nach einer Fortsetzung schreien (muss, meiner Meinung nach, nicht sein).

Visitor Map

Hey folks check my new visitor map. Go ahead and add yourself to the map!

Grenoble

I know this is long overdue, but finally I uploaded some *normal* photos. Which means no sport involved. Unbelievable but true.

Bastille Grenoble

Some pictures I took at the Bastille with Basti and Mikka.

View from my Appartment in Grenoble

Encore un peut du ski

Voila les photos de mes dernières sorties de ski.

Les 7 Laux 2007-01-25

Les Deux Alpes 2007-02-15

ça va vous surprendre, mais la neige était bonne!
Par contre la semaine dernière c'était vraiment nulle, j'ai même pas pris des photos...

En fait si on compte mes sortie cette année, je pense que c'était le pire ans de toute ma vie. C'est dommage qu'il n'y avait pas des bonnes conditions, j'aurais eu le temps de faire beaucoup plus de ski en France. Mais vu les conditions pourri, je n'ai pas eu envie. L'année prochain je ne vais plus être là et je voulais vraiment voir beaucoup de stations ici.

Hey everybody! First of all: Thanks everybody for actually reading my blog! Yesterday I talked to Pierre-Alain, who asked me how I liked the Gorges de Verdon. I was surprised and asked him how he knew about that - "I read it on your blog" he responded. :-) Makes me happy to hear people are reading this. Thanks.
Secondly: Sorry for not writing anything for a long time, it's not like nothing happened I was just too lazy to blog; and of course not having an internet connection at home is a good excuse ;-)


Well, right after my last post I went to the Gorges de Verdon, with Jordi, Joaquín and LLuc. Three Catalans (not Spanish!), who only spoke Catalan to each other. Catalan is a language which is kind of between Spanish and French, so I did understand more than I expected and more the they expected me to understand I guess. It was fun listening to them, in some conversations I didn't understand anything, in others I understood everything (well, at least I had that impression).

We didn't share the pictures we took yet, but as soon as we do I'm going to upload them to my picasa site. (and put the link here)

got internet

Yesterday, I finally got an internet connection in my home after waiting for over a month for the new provider to start working.
Right now I'm waiting for Jordi to pick me up to go to the "Gorges De Verdon"! That's going to be so awsome! I'm going to write some more when I get back, in the meantime you could take a look at the pictures I took last time when I was there.

Un WE en belledonne

Les 13 Janvier, nous sommes partis avec Romain, Sylvain et Heidi faire un couloir facile qui mène à la pointe du sifflet. Cette sortie a été l'occasion pour nous de sortir pour la première fois de l'année les piolets, crampons et tout l'attirail du parfait petit alpiniste. On craignait un peu les difficultés pour la montée mais celle ci s'est passée sans encombre, nous n'avons même pas sorti la corde. En revanche, la descente sur l'arête Nord fut beaucoup plus intéressant. Philipp nous a montré tout son talent en posage de protections ( un peu trop à mon gout vu qu'il commencait à faire froid). Le soir, Mélanie, Nicolas, Laurent, Isaac et Manu nous ont rejoint au refuge (Habert d'Aiguebelle) ou nous avons mangé une grosse fondue, joué au poker et au Yam's. Le Heidi, Romain, Laurent, Mélanie et Philipp sont partis pour faire une arrête Sud, cependant les autres sont descendus. C'était la premiere fois que j'ai grimpe avec des chaussures de montagne et ca m'a étonné que ça marche bien. On a passé tout la journée au plein soleil, on n'est pas arrivé au sommet, mais c'était jolie quand même. La crux était spécial ;) On a grimpé à plus que 2000m en T-shirt, les températures sont la folie.


Sylvain et Philipp

Alpes d'Huez and Deux Alpes

Alpes d'Huez 2006-12-27

Deux Alpes 2007-01-03

Added two skiing trips to my photo album. Alpes d'Heuz and Deux Alpes. I broke my snowboard on Thursday, which really sucks. Not repairable; RIP. I'll need to get a new one, if want to go snowboarding this season...

I updated all my previous posts and replaced the pictures with direct links to the whole photo albums. Should be much nicer to navigate for you now :)


Bitte unterschreibt die Unterschriftensammlung zur Rettung des Dschungelbuchs.