Petzl Roc Trip 2012

Quite some years of Petzl Roc Trips all over the world... And this is number 10!

All the way to South America.

Remember the China trip report? 

I don't know much yet, but as far as I know you should start booking your ticket for the best climbing event of the decade!

Best climbing video of the Year!

No wonder it took Petzl some time to edit all the China-images.
They created a master-piece!
This video is the full version on what you've seen before about the Petzl Roc Trip 2011.
Getu Vally, China was the location.
Amazing culture, awesome climbing!
Most climbing video's show pro-climbers pulling on holds for 15 minutes and don't snow anything (or hardly anything) of the environment. This video shows what climbing is all about: hard moves, nice atmosphere and beautiful surroundings in perfect editing. The music, the images, it just all comes together.

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I was wondering last weekend, what company would ever want to organise such an event when they have so much rock around them at home?
I figured Petzl really does this all for the climbers. Just for us. For you. And with that in my mind I found the whole Petzl Roc Trip concept the best there is!

La voie du Milieu

When I look back to what I did last year, it's still fantastic.

I went all the way to China, traveled over 2000km to visit a very special climbing area: Getu Valley.

At the time being there I was totally not satisfied with what I was able to climb and was ashamed sometimes of my achievements there.

But the atmostphere, the people and the whole image on being there was as they would say in Flemmish-Dutch: hallucinant.

Daniel du Lac is one of the climbers I met there. One of the 'older' rock stars with many good competition results on his CV, he now climbs still on a really proper level. He's an inspiring and motivating climber. And just when thinking back on the whole trip a video of one of his routes out there was published.

Watch and enjoy.

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Daniel Dulac establishing the route La Voie du Milieu - Petzl RocTrip China 2011

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Lolotte

In China we met a very nice 'person': Lolotte.

Lolotte is a frog travelling the world. She (?) meets climbers, visits famous climbing areas and sometimes she dares a climb herself :)

We met her as well back in China.

Want to become fan of Lolotte: check her Facebookpage

Just a blog post

These days I'm pretty busy with all kinds of things.

I have to work (money...) I need to climb and actually I should study (no time for it...) and I have to do administration things and make a movie about the STS and arrange all things for the first aid trainings (=part of my work) and I need

to....uhhh, it's just all a bit too much right now.

So I decided to do none of it all now and read and

knit. On my friends' the wish list: socks (Richard), a sweater (Eva) and a hat (Johannes). So enough to knit for the whole Winter.

Meanwhile Dennis tried to murder me, do I try to learn the basics of Chinese, manage to wash without as washing-machine, and I now will try to convince you that you should be in Monte Cervino tomorrow, in Monk on Sunday, in Nijmegen on Monday, Amsterdam on Tuesday...

Why? Five Ten (Brand of the brave) has the Test Event.

All nice five-tennies in all sizes to fit, feel, test, and climb with! The best excuse to buy new shoes, test them straight away and have your local Five Ten climbers to give you advice (all 5.10 Dutch team-members will be around) More info on the 5.10 Facebook page here.

And then, when work is done, administration done, climbing done, five ten tested, Chinese learned, socks knitted...then it's finally time for China!

3 weeks of climbing and adventure!

Because we'll be away, won't have e-mail, no phone reach, no postbox...we'll be busy...climbing! @Petzl Roc Trip in Getu Valley, China :)

this-is-an-automated-out-of-office-message-I'll-be-able-to-get-back-to-you-in-three-weeks-sorry-for-the-uncoveinance-over-and-out :)

Oh, don't worry about the murder...in fact Dennis just broke a bottle of beet-juice ;)

Ow, yes, and the video report of our STS trip, as promised, here: