07.21.06

More climbing

Posted in Climbing at 11:04 pm by tesstess

We went to the same place as last time, close to Monaco.

In the background you can see the climbing site. For me these are impressing mountains, but Anthony told me stories of walls several hunred meeters high which obviously must be way more impressing. Hope I get good enough on climbing to see them some day.

Below follows the story of how to climb in first position.

Philippe gave me the real spelling on those things you put in the rings, it’s degaine in french, and quickdraw in english. I needed lots of those so that they would last the whole route. On the second picture I’m about to take one of the degains and put into the first ring, and in the third picture I’m taking the rope through the degaine. And then it’s on towards the next ring.

When at this height, I’m really happy there are someone at the ground allways ready if I fall, and to give me advise when stuck at difficult places.

I can understand the most basic climbing terms in french now, and words like left, right, hand and foot. But I think I will prefer advises in english for some more weeks… Translating words is not the main thing you want to do when stuck up there.

Philippe and Anthony.

I like this picture of Philippe. It’s allways a nice feeling to be on your way down, first because you just made it to the top of a difficult route and second because you get to float in the air, and jump on the wall side all the way down.

At the end it got so dark that Anthony climbed the last rout with a torch on his forehead.

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