A little of everything …

Just why would I? I answered myself several times when the time would be to write something… But this is solved in my case. I don’t care about others words and I just write something when I feel like it. And wright then when I feel it, fingers alone crazily type on the keyboard, even though I don’t have course in blind typing.

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Enjoy training …

Deep in the springI had hiccupsfor ice-axes. Once again turned out how much I like those tools. And yes, I will never be, from the ugly and twisted little finger on my foot to the last messy strand of hair on my head, as rock climber as a climber with ice-axes in my hands. When I’m ”in”, I sometimes think that instead of fingers I have ice-axes connected with my palm…

Well anyway, I began more frequently to soak fingers in a bag with magnesium and then in May I had 28 climbing days in a rock and yes, it was great. Once again I ”fell in” and on sight climbing 7b routes as a joke…

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This year in great sector Massonetu I spent at least 15 days of climbing …

But then summer came and I spent a lot of time educating for mountain guides. It was nice, interesting and very educative, also because there were plenty of us and I had a blast with Matej and Jernej…

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To the top of the Les Curtes …
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The morning light that we were almost swept to the floor …

Just in time, in the middle of a rainy summer, the expedition to Kyrgyzstancame. It’s decorated with only superlatives. I will point out two and those are great guys and companionship.

Again I could start with a boring talk about assessments and really beautiful new lines that stayed behind us. But no, this time my friends deserve the first word…

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In “White powder  …”
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Great wall of Mt. Corona peak, we opened two beautiful new line

My tenth expedition was from the beginning ”destined” to who will go with us and who not… From the eight team members were then left only four. Luckily NejcKurinčič then joined us. It was really great for me, until I sprained my ankle pretty bad when getting off a rock. According to presumptions of doctor Nejc it was a fracture and in that moment my world collapsed… In the next sentences I’ll try to tell what I felt then, but I’m sure that I will not pour everything here. Simply all guys engaged so much for my transport to the valley and they wasted a few wonderful and beautiful days in the embrace of beautiful mountains and walls in the area because of me. It was the first time a doctor was around on the expedition. On this one turned out that it’s almost necessary that a doctor is presenton every expedition. But simply we always say that we won’t need him. Soon you get a slap in the face and it can end very badly. This is where the our Alpine assiciation of Sloveni  should get more seriously about this and give some funds– but you know what this is about, I won’t talk about that here! The frequency between people variesa lot and especially on the expeditions gets to even more highlightedfluctuationsbetween members. And not only we got together very well, we were such fellowsin a bunch that this balance got tuned and on the moments the comical moments turned out really great… In a second Nejc ”put” himself back to work, even though he was on annualleaveand had a purpose on this expedition mainly climb, had a lot of medical work (hedescribedthathere)and all I can say is not every climber that climbs is a climber, so is not everybody a doctor just because of what is written before his name. This is a missionthat to some is given to some not and if you upgrade this talent and commitment, you become a Spiderman… Nejc is definitely becoming that! … Commitment, precision and words would a blind and a deaf man convince to that. Friend Nejc, for how much I am sorry we will never climb some serious lines together, so much I wish you to succeed on the path you chose…

Everybody else wererunningseveral times a day app half an hour away from the base to search the signal and they over and over again talked what and how will be with my transport to the valley… Boštjan, Rokand Dean, sincerely thank you for your patience and sincerely companionship.


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In the wonderful Saint Leger du Ventoux

Too soon came the best months in a year for me… Part of a wonderful fall Stanka and I spent in a beautiful Provence. Climbing areas here are meant for the Gods. They really have a lot of them, those pearls of lines in peaceful canyons just call for a revisit and you soon realize why a lot of climbers all around the world choose an idyllic Provence for home.

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Climbing areas for the Gods  …
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Beautiful Provence …

Here I will give a word for this year’s eventof alpinists in Kamniška Bistrica. For a few years I’ve known lot members of Alpin Club Kamnik and it was clearly I can’t miss this event. It was nice to meet climbing colleagues and deep bow and pay tributeto the path that Peter Mežnar and AlešHolc left too soon. To a narrower fellowshipthat took over the organization of this event everybody should put a hat of … It was really able to feel this emotion, it can’t be made just with good lectures, music and alcohol fumes. Well done again! How can we people be so connected and how little is necessary to make people whose life turns their back around, happy… I hope that to you girls we gave a little rock in a constructionof a huge stairwell to a path above…


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And of course I can’t go pass the excellent lecture of world Himalayanlegends in Vipava. On October 18th NivesMeroi and Roman Benet made a great evening and through this excellent lecture showed their full and substantivelyrich life road of Himalayan peaks, ups, downs, tears of happiness and sadness. Over 150 people in the crowd almost supernatural gave standing ovations and really gave to everything a great stamp. Nives and Roman, it was my pleasure we shared this evening together.


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And again, like many times before I shake and my palms sweatfrom a stage frightand enthusiasm when I again and again and day by day grab new excellent Grivel machines and I chaseup and down the lines and again it inhumane retracts meand by myself from somewhere from the side watch how nice is to do things that are part of you and they make you happy so unearthly… over and over… year by year…