Ascensões em Donautal como vários tipos de ascensões registradas como sport por Jef Van Alsenoy

Did the book say: do not follow the chimney all the way up? Whoops. Fun tradding in the chimney though, and a feisty warm up.

Pieter's Nemesis of the day... He fought really hard! The bolts are far apart for us and he's not comfortable placing gear but made a lot of progress! He went up, felt instantly pumped, placed some stuff, took some rests, felt pumped again,... a lot of mind barriers. Took him down for a coffee, sent him back up, he made a lot of progress but was well cooked arriving at the part where it started getting easy. He put in great work! I flashed it and it felt really ok for me, placing some extra gear, the placements are there, the holds are there, I felt good sending it and the last bite before the anchor is really intense

What a stunning line! Incredible... So much lovely cam and nut placements. The roof can be well protected and climbed, even the easy section above lends itself to gracious movement. Pieter tore some rocks off, that was cool.

First portaledge experience! The first pitch was spicy and more polished then expected. Took a nice fall to warm up the spirits. Also took an unexpected fall when hauling, what a scare! Good that the backup rope was there Second pitch was also a good lead for me, Pieter wasn't in for it. Started mounting the portaledge by deep dusk, went pretty smooth after all. We went down for food and riesling on a single rope expecting to "have a highway to our bed after dinner". Pieter jumared his way up in maybe 25 minutes, getting there with a lot of swearing using his improvised jumaring setup. I top tope solo'd it up but also had a hard time after the day and the riesling. Good sleep, chilly though. Remember not to pee next to the anchor! First poop tube experience! Pieter led the last pitch the next morning. Good riddance!