Climbing photo wins climbing wine

The Dutch rock climbing and boulder magazine BLOK (Bl.ad o.ver k.limmen) runs a photo competition on their website. Sandra decided to send in one of the photos of our spring 2011 Kalymnos trip, and guess what.. we won two bottles of "Climbing Shiraz" :).

The winning photo, featured on their website and in the BLOK magazine, shows me climbing Kerveros 7a in sector Spartacus, a very aesthetic route with lots of stalactite features and a marvelous view.

Climbing in Kalymnos

Twelve years have past since i entered a 'serious' climbing competition, so when i read about the Dutch seniors national climbing competition NK Veteranen, i thought it would be fun to enter. And guess what, i won 1^st price! :) The results are listed on the site of Mountain Network, organizer of the event. It was a lot of fun, especially since we came home with two 1^st prices... Sandra's age group only had one participant :). Unfortunately we won't be there in 2012, by that time we'll be pulling some rock somewhere deep into rural China.

Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2011

During our stay at Kalymnos the annual Kalymnos Climbing Festival took place from 18^th - 22^nd May. Pro-climbers Patxi Usobiaga and Nicolas Favresse were invited to give video presentations. Nico's talk on Vertical sailing Greenland was both inspiring and hilarious, it's a pleasure to meet climbers who don't take themselves too seriously. On the 21^st a boulder competition was held in the harbour of Pothia, below you can see some photos (© Nikolaos Smalios) of the finals which were won by Alexander Hille.

Alexander Hille

Marcel Heemskerk

Loukas Dourdourekas