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Caption: Ice climbing on the warmest winter ever. Chasing Ice
Caption: "Ice climbing season used to start early November, ending mid March..." This is what some of the pioneers of ice climbing here in the Alps tells us.
Hard to believe at their words; this year the ice climbing season lasted about 40 days. Almost every line is already melting or collapsed.
We've been lucky enought to enjoy some of those before was too late.
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Caption: As ice in the Alps is disappearing, climbers are developing more and more their dry tooling abilities.
Dry tooling is a tecnique of climbing with ice axes and crampons on pure rock without ice.
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Caption: Dry tooling can be extremely technical and athletic, going up on roofs and overhanging walls.
But nothing can be compared with the magic art of climbing on ice.
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Caption: Thanks to Giovanni, Hervè, Alain and Stefano for the good time.
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