Climbing Extreme

The author - Juho Risku

I have been thinking about putting up a blog related to ice climbing for some time now. Though I really can’t credit myself of being the best, or most daring, hard core, climber around here or even close to the top row, I love climbing frozen waterfalls, I love the bite of the cold winter air, I love the feeling being high and seeing sights that most people simply can’t because they can’t climb, I love the exercise, physical nature of climbing ice, I love the feeling to fear, wining the fear and I certainly like taking risks – though not too much.  There for it was kind of natural for me to start blogging about ice climbing. I’m just trying to share some of the love I have for the sport of climbing frozen waterfalls.

I’ve been climbing for several years now, almost entirely ice. The purpose of this blog is to share my modest experiences about ice climbing, feelings, climbing spots, related equipment and techniques, tips and tricks, and hopefully inspire few other authors to join in this blog to share their knowledge so that fellow climbers could benefit from what they’ve experienced.

Though this blog is mostly concentrating on ice climbing, I’m occasionally writing on related topics which interest me, such as winter hikes, randone skiing, snowboarding, mountaineering, snow safety issues and such. Perhaps during the summer times, when there’s less ice, there will be few not so ice related posts as well. I’m also warmly inviting fellow climbers to write.