Beat Kammerlander has re-climbed Prinzip Hoffnung (Principle Hope) at the Burs Plate in Austria a decade after he made the first ascent. This time he climbed it without the bolts.
Weighing in at F8b/+ and featuring 15 metre falls on to micro wires, Beat considers this to be one of the great highlights of his climbing career.
In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC: I'd love to go to Ratikon
Me too ever since I read Kim Carrigan's article about it in Mountain. It never looms as large in the mind as Verdon and Dolomites - it probably should.
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> Nearly ended up in a fight with some Bishop redneck over an incident involving Beat... the redneck didn't like Beat's long red hair!
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Was this, perchance, in Rusty's? The clientele there don't seem to like anything without a red neck.
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> Was this, perchance, in Rusty's? The clientele there don't seem to like anything without a red neck.
Just outside the Kava Cafe - watching the Mule Days parade.
You open a full can, decide you don't want it, leave it outside the tent overnight then watch a dog being very very very ill for the whole of the next day.
Are you absolutely sure about the translation of the route name? (Perhaps "The Hope Princliple"?).
The filming manages to make the slab look overhung all the way - but at the start it's clearly just off-vertical and at the end he can balance with hands off!
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> Superb and interesting to note he gave it an E Grade on the German site.
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> Doesn't he know the system is broke?
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Those furriners have finally seen the light after decades of souless...high quality....sunny....bolt-clipping...with fine wines, good food, beautifully tanned women/men....
Hard / Easy is simpler still - it still doesn't resonate with a public brought up on UK trad grades. I can stand at the bottom of, say, Widdop Wall or Indian Face and think wow - its a bigger prospect than these routes.
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