Fjaerlands: Exciting Tuesday

A days climbing Fjaerland proved to be one of the more exciting Tuesdays of my life. I found a blog entry describing relatively straightforward days climbing: 

http://heihaaklatring.blogspot.no/2014/09/silkebrisen.html?m=1

Google translate struggles with this one, key information simply doesn't make scene. But without thinking too much about it myself and Peter (one of the only climbers in Belgium) decided that the library could wait for a rainy day and took a short drive though lots of tunnels to Fjaerland.

Me starting up the fantastic 1st pitch. 

Pieter on the second.

The third pitch was too scary for photos, 30m of slab padding with out any gear.... I think we were off route.

On the 5th pitch we decided to keep on going upwards, it seemed like the natural line and the climbing was good quality. 

 We ended up climbing the rising spurs and broken scrambling terrain for a further 700m! a mixture of glorious, (probably never climbed before,) super high friction crack lines and wet, chosy, louse , dangerous, shitty ground- proper adventure climbing! We raced up the last few hundred meters, moving together for most of the way and reached the 1290m top just as darkness fell. walking around the foot of the glacier in my rock shoes I felt distinctly under-prepared, the scale of the Norweigian mountains was defiantly settling in. I was relived and humbled to find a gift of a decent route to the south east, the only weakness in the cliff lines largly free from ice and snow.

9.30pm back at the car.