Climbing in Kåfjord valley NorwayTuesday, March 24th, 2009 with Comments Off

It’s been over a week since we got back from Kåfjord Valley, Norway. My apologies for the delay with the report. Anyways, I have to say that climbing in Kåfjord were excellent. We had three days of climbing, one fall each day, highest climb roughly 340 meters and 8 pitches. It was kind of late [...]

Finally heading to NorwayMonday, March 9th, 2009 with Comments Off

Finally it’s confirmed. We’re heading to Norway on Thursday with my friend Jari. We’ve allready geared for 15-20 Abalakovs, hundreds of meters of ice and four winter nights in a tent. Can’t really wait to get there. At some point our plan was to get our selves in to Skibotn valley and climb the Hourglass [...]

The three most stupid (and potentially deadly) things I’ve done on the mountainsThursday, March 5th, 2009 with Comments Off

During the last few weeks I’ve been writing an article about climbing in real mountain conditions as opposed to average Finnish ice climbing conditions. As a part of this process I just started to memorize all the stupid things I’ve done on the mountains. Trust me, there have been plenty of those, many of which [...]