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Attempt on Moonflower Buttress on Mount Hunter, Alaska

Posted on May 23, 2010 at 2:44 PM

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 here.

Jim looking at the enormous route awaiting us.

My best photos

Posted on March 20, 2010 at 1:11 PM

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

Hydnefossen in Hemsedal

Posted on March 15, 2010 at 6:31 AM

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.

We had Norwegian company on the route.

Nils Nielsen (guide at www.breogfjell.no) on the last pitch up to the cornice.

First Danish ascent of Vettisfossen, Norway

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 4:35 AM

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.