Kristoffer Szilas

I have just returned from a trip to Alaska where Jim Broomhead and I attempted to climb Moontflower Buttress on Mount Hunter. After waiting out bad weather in our tent for over a week we started up the route as the first team of the season. Unfortunately Jim got frostbite in several of his fingers at our first bivy about halfway up the route, so we had to abandon the climb. Anyway it was a fun trip with some fantastic climbing.

Photos from the climb can be found

I've put together a slide show with all of my favorite photos that can be found in the gallery section and here:

This weekend Martin Ploug and I climbed the classic “Hydnefossen” in Hemsedal, Norway.

We took the line of least resistance up the middle.

Martin starting up the first pitch.

This weekend Martin Ploug and I climbed the famous Vettisfossen in Utladalen, Norway. It has the highest free fall (275m) of any water fall in Scandinavia and is one of the most difficult ice climbs there in part because it rarely forms, but also because of its wild ice features. We were lucky enough to find the ice formed all the way, so we did a rare repeat of the direct start, which goes through an ice roof where the pillar is broken from the cone.

I’m back in Denmark now and have put together a photo gallery from ice climbing in Canada that can be found here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102048338482894223782/albums/5595125465487200801

It was great experience and it's definitely a place I have to visit again.

I managed to climb the following routes this winter in Canada:

Sea of Vapors WI6

Whiteman Falls WI6

Nemesis WI6

Pilsner Pillar WI6

Weeping Wall ...