Training in the Belgian Ardennes

Last week I went to the Belgian Ardennes for the last of a series of six trainings for the Fuji firebrigade. This time I had to train a mixed group; males and females, Dutch and Polish. The weather was very cooperative for the beginniong of September. We had basicly dry weather and sleeping in the little tents at night caused no problem at all. Activities involved hiking, navigation, communication, sensitivity, canoeing and rock climbing. That all was combined with lots of laughter, fun, good food and of course a good drink in the evening!

Photo albums

As you miy have seen, we put specific photo albums on the list underneath our profile. The albums date back for 3 years (until 2007). The older albums you can still view by clicking the link at the downside of the right bar on our BLOG. At the same time there are a few people that automaticly recieve our updates by mail. If you one of them and you don't want these updates, please tell me and I will remove the automatic e-mail sender to your e-mail address.

Climbing adventures

During the last two weeks I spent my time in guiding a team of ten colleages and friends into the Italian, French and Swiss Alps with the main target being the summit of Mont Blanc. This ultimate target was not achieved due to bad weather conditions and therefore many deadly accidents. As the experience level in the group was not too high, we decided to keep things safe. Although the Mont Blanc was not reached, we did climb the Gran paradiso (4061 meter) and the breithorn (4160 meter). The climb to the Breithorn was doen in spectacular beautiful weather and also the complete team reached the summit on Wednesday, August the 25th at 09.30 AM (see photo).