http://www.xpedition.be Xpedition.be, Climbing Expeditions around the world with the Club Alpin Belge Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:55:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the moment we’ve been waiting for! The conditions are no longer ideal for naked bathing.... but the weather is now bad enough to start our Atlantic crossing. Even Bob, for the first time, said that it looked gnarly! We’ve been getting the boat ready for the worst of ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=414 The great advantage of travelling on a sailboat is that we are free to move around while resting and investigating possibilities for climbing but it also makes it a lot easier in establishing Greenland’s first naturist beaches. While sunbathing naked on the deck (don’t tell our captain, he was below ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=411 Reverend captain Bob made his second come back to climbing since 1977. “It was exciting, strenuous and technical” according to Bob himself, “but 500m is far too long for a 75 year old man”. The route is called “Never again”. We picked a line thinking it would be easy and ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=409 We spotted a nice looking spire from the boat and early the next morning we set off in a complete foggy white out. With only 10 m visibility and not knowing if we were walking in the right direction the only thing we could do was keep walking… after 5 ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=407 As soon as we descended from the Impossible wall, the weather turned bad. We sailed south in the rain and fog slaloming between icebergs. The waves and motion of the ocean resulted in some delicious meals being wasted overboard… After 900 miles of vomiting the weather cleared up and we ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=405 Climbing this wall was like climbing in heaven.  The feeling of climbing straight above the sea was incredible with its colour changing all day long from dark to light blue sometime even black when the storm came in. Our daily spectacle included the movements of huge icebergs floating by and ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=402 One of the main question marks of the line we wanted to climb was a big mysterious overhanging black hole. The closer we got to it to scarier and more intimidating it seemed. After our second day on the wall it started to rain hard... very hard. First day we ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=396 “Go climb that wall! And don’t come back unless you do!” reverend Bob shouted up at us as we stepped straight off the boat on to the wall. Captain reverend Bob’s commitment to our efforts was full on. Putting his boat on the line on more than one occasion. May ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=399 “Impossible mais possible après tout.” “I’ve been looking at that wall for twelve years, but I’ve never found any team good enough” Bob Shepton winner of the 2009 Tilman medal. On july 12 we committed to “the impossible wall”. After 8 days we found ourselves on the summit on July 22. So ... http://www.xpedition.be/?p=393 We finally received some (short) news from the team! They just spent 11 days sailing and jamming on the wall and they are doing fine. More news (and pictures) should come in the next days. Stay tuned! http://www.xpedition.be/?p=390