Last weekend (21.02 to 23.02.2015) we managed to climb two long ice falls in Pitztal: the Luibisbobenfall (~450 m, WI 4/4+) and the Klockelefall (~200 m, one pitch WI 4). We also climbed another ice fall near Scheibrand (apparently a ...

On Saturday 17th January Yu and I drove to Sellrain to find climbable icefalls. We first looked in the main Sellrain valley in between Gries and Kühtai (Bafflfall & Ochsengarten), but the conditions were very poor at that time and, ...

In the first week of 2015 I went to the Maltatal in Austria with Yu and one of his climbing friends Xia. Luckily in the last two weeks before the new year temperatures were cold enough in order to form ...

Aiguille du Tour via l'Arête de la Table in summary: Location in between Cabane du Trient and Refuge Albert Premier, ~3540 m Date of the climb August 30, 2014 Character high-altitude alpine ridge climb Popularity average Difficulty overall: AD+, IV+ ...

Over the last two weekends I made attempts to climb the Grand Combin (4314 m) by the Meitin ridge and the Dent Blanche ( 4357 m) by the South ridge. Unfortunately, in both cases we had to retreat just below 4000 ...

Last weekend Yu and I decided to climb the so called Zsigmondy peak (also called Feldkopf). It is a peak in the Zillertaler Alps (Tirol/Austria) that was stated to be not climbable in the 19th century. The two Zsigmondy brothers ...

Together with a friend from Munich I climbed my first alpine couloir last weekend, the so called Goulotte Chéré (D-, 4, 250 m), at the Triangle du Tacul in Chamonix: The conditions are very dry at the moment, but still perfect ...

Last weekend (from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th of March 2014) we headed to the Hinterrheintal in the south of swiss to climb the highest peak of the Kanton Graubuenden: the Rheinwaldhorn / Adula (3402 m). We choose to stay at ...