This morning I departed Malaga in magnificent weather - no clouds and temperatures around 23 degrees. With a group of London-based friends we’ve spent the last 5 days in El Chorro - a classic winter-sun destination, mostly visited by English and German climbers.
I got back to the rocks shortly after the previous post. In fact, on the very next day. Together with Rado we went to Climbers’ Club Hut Ynys Ettws in the heart of Llanberis Pass, North Wales to participate in the BMC International Summer Climbing Meet from 10-th to 17-th May.
[Read More]It’s been two weeks since I got out of the hospital. I’ve spent a night in the emergency and a week and a half in the Major Trauma unit. I’ll have to wear a TLSO brace for another three weeks. I shouldn’t be complaining because that’s the minimum, before the operation the doctors were saying it could be 10 or more weeks until my back is stable enough to go unsupported. Everything went well with the operation and according to the doctor, my recovery is also going excellent for now.
[Read More]Every now and then when I meet new people, they’re asking me how and when did I started climbing. I usually tell them - it was the summer of 2010, when I took it seriously. The full story is a bit longer. I don’t actually remember the year of my first climbing attempts, it was probably around 2001. What I do know is that I was in high-school.
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