Mountain of greatness: Kilimanjaro
It’s dark and bitterly cold. The wind as we are approaching the volcano’s rim screeches like an express train overhead. My group previously cool calm and collected begin to exchange [...]
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Rolfe Oostra – Ama Dablam
It’s blowing a hoolie and the fixed line, tight like a piano wire is curved like a huge bow above us. The snow stake anchors that are holding the rope [...]
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Rolfe Oostra – Jebel Toubkal and Sahara Desert
Imagine a country which on first impressions is so unlike yours that upon arriving it seems as if you have fallen into Alice’s Wonderland. You clear customs and step into [...]
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Rolfe Oostra – Crabioule peak
Across the valley from my house and behind the 2,800m Savegarde lies a peak whose two summits are joined by an extremely hairy 400m ridge. I can’t see it from [...]
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Rolfe Oostra – Kilimanjaro Adventure
A wise man once said that the intensity of an experience lies within the detail. And this is definitely true for climbing Africa’s highest mountain. It can be a never-ending slog or [...]
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Ulvetanna Success
Location: Mavericks, Ulvetanna Base Camp, S 71 49.146′, E 008 21.867′
Temperature: -15 C, clear, sunny and beautiful, 0 knots.
NE Ridge Ulvetanna, 1750m, E6 6b, 5.12, A2 (C2)
We made it! [...]
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