Natural Thrill
"Fear is a safety factor"
Kilian Fischhuber has a headstrong success strategy: he rarely wins contests but never places worse than fifth. In Hall, Austria, on the other hand he did away with tradition and immediately began the new season with a victory. What else he has planned for this year, Kilian discloses in an interview.
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Glowacz's close-up
Expedition Baffin Island, May 11: Stefan Glowacz’s blog on his adventurous journey to a wall to which nobody has ever been.
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Climbing the wall with a leg in cast
David Lama climbed his first 8a route at the age of ten. Today he’s 17, lead climb and boulder European Champion – and hungry for more. Why climbing is his life and what he’s expecting from 2008 the Austrian describes in his very personal season preview.
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Destination: Nowhere
On Stefan Glowacz’s next climbing expedition he’ll have to forego the companionable fun in the huts – due to the absence of company, fun and huts. The goal of his expedition on the almost unchartered Baffin Island: a wall that has been neither climbed nor mapped.
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