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badexcuseforasailor Member  Top Poster 2003  Member#: 116 Location: Registered: 26-01-2003 Diary Entries: 357 Mood: wheres the wind? |
28th November 2004 Other: London Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: -5 Sea Temperature: Weather: Max Speed: Distance Covered: Equipment: Ice Axe x2 Crampons ski trousers Jacket 4 season boots Not sure if I can claim this but have to get something in the Diary for November. Ice Climbing.............................. In London ! I had an hours session booked for me at Vertical Chill at Convent Garden. I tryed to do some outdoor iceclimbing a couple of years ago in Canada but high winds and tempertures of -60c with the windchill saw it canceled. I arrived at vertical chill and got suited up with the equipment supplied. The wall is contained in a huge freezer which covers 2 floors with viewing windows. The temprature is about -5 to keep the ice as ice. Having never done ice climbing before it was a bit strange at first but got to grips with it, Some of the pointers given to me are very similar to windsurfing don't grip the axes too tighly and when using the axes keep your bum in and shoulders back. I was all roped up for safety so no chance of falling off the ice and to aid coming down too just had to take the axes out the ice and walk down backwards so a bit of absailing too. Had a great day even if it ment going to london, tourists everywhere think I was the only english person there ...........even the climbing instructor was foreign Also very tiring indeed can really feel it in the wrists and legs. Somthing I would like to do again maybe next year I may go up to Castleton as they have a 16m ice wall there. |
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