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In the Slovenian Julian Alps there is a wall that literally stares at you. With a human-like face and almost perfect symmetry the wall with these unique features is called the Ajdovska Deklica (Heathen Maiden). Our idea: A new route on this iconic wall face.
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Towards the end of February 2020 Slovenian mountaineers Luka Krajnc and Luka Lindič established a difficult new climb up the south face of Aguja Saint-Exupéry in Patagonia’s Fitz Roy massi
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Over a two day push on April 2 – 3, 2019 the team of Ines Papert, Luka Lindic and Brette Harrington completed the first route to climb the entire East Face of Mt. Fay (3234m) in the Alberta Rockies. As the group of climbers enjoy a day of rest in Canmore, Alberta, they share their thoughts on freeing the 1100m route.
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Things were not working out for us on this trip and in situations like this it would be easy to find an excuse to lower our expectations of doing everything in pure alpine style. It was Ines’ first time trying to climb an 8.000 meter peak, and it definitely didn’t go as we would have wished.
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I see myself more on exposed faces than on single move problems. South Africa is more or less famous for its exceptional bouldering and sport climbing, but only very few climbers choose the enormous potential for trad climbing on perfect quartzite, sandstone and granite.
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Between April 1st and 11th 2016, Canadian alpinist Marc-André Leclerc and I climbed three new routes in the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
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It can be the beauty of the mountain or its difficulty that challenges you. Usually one of those characteristics ignites a spark in me that eventually transforms into an idea. Beauty and difficulty sometimes meet in a shape of an incredible mountain like Gasherbrum IV. The spark and the idea happened already a while ago, but it wasn’t until this year that this was actually our project.
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The Kyzyl Asker, a bare and hard to access mountain on the border between China and Kyrgyzstan in the Xingjang Region has seen very few ascents so far. In 2010, I attempted to open a new line on the southeast face of the mountain but had to retreat just 300m shy of the summit due to heavy snowfall and avalanches. A second attempt a year later was also futile due to health problems of my team.
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The routes up the north face of the Grandes Jorasses evoke such descriptive words as "hard" and "committing".
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