"What if you climb a via ferrata at night — a rock route with fixed steel cables and iron rungs in the mountain face — with only your headlamp as light?"
You develop an almost supernatural confidence in your own body when you can only rely on your sense of touch and the light circle of your lamp. The silence of the nighttime mountain makes every movement more intense, while your grip strength and sense of balance improve exponentially. Plus: you have a story that even seasoned climbers will be impressed by.
Mees (29), Groningen — IT guy, had done indoor climbing before but never real mountain work
Around half past ten at night I was hanging from a steel cable against a mountain face in the Berchtesgaden Alps, with only my headlamp lighting up the next iron rung.
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