Spitsbergen 2016

Skiing on Svalbard / Spitsbergen lat +75°

  As always, this location, with its great possibilities for an adventurous skiing trip, hard to beat!

Its amazing scenery, its wild life and the huge big numbers of ski lines direct down to the sea, that is true "Summit to Sea".

Hard to be beaten elsewhere!!

I will let the pictures speak for them self...

The biggest on land, these guys get up to 1500kg! mr Morse

Huge gettering!

The Boss, on its way up.

Sterna paradise.

The local Boss, Big Boss!

Locals hanging around.

Ove, the chief, making the engine run even better.

At work.

The Origo Crew

Best place to be.

the complete team 2016! Skiers, crew and captain of Origo

Correct but easy info

We love skiing, skiing everything!

Time for an Arctic Swim after a long hot day skiing...chill of!

Credits to Mats Jarmer at Jarmer.se for some great shoots and good company!

Cosmique Couloir - Aiguille du Midi

Voie Rebuffat - Eperon des Cosmiques

  Taking advantage of the approaching "summer"- in fact the Alpine Summer would be more correct. Climbing the classic Voie Rebuffat at Eperon des Cosmiques 

With a 7 day window with no work we tried to get the most out of a week with combined activities of skiing and climbing. With the weather gods a little against our planes and ideas, working against us sort of, we decided to make at least one good try to get an alpine rock climb in there...somewhere.

Eperon des Cosmiques

The easiest and best plan would be Eperon at Aiguille du Midi and the Voie Rebuffat. A 6 pitch route up les Cosmiques with old style UIAA grade VI maximum, over the small roof.
A great rock climb but in our weather condition turned out to be more of an Alpine adventure. Just a great day out!!

The approach or actually pitch 1, just snow at this time.

High quality rock. Anna follows on pitch 3 over the roof

Belay at top of pitch 4, already occupied by locals

Topo
Le Topo du massif du Mont Blanc - Michel Piola
Camptocamp

You need
1 set of nuts
1 set of friends Green-Red Alien, #0.75-3.0 BD
50m rope
Iceaxe
Crampons

1. //Never give up, it's such a wonderful life