jeudi 15 janvier 2009

Climbing in Babylon

Babylon is situated in the "fiordland national park" and has approximatively 10m of rain per year. it's more than in Belgium!!!! amazing!











Before we arrived, it was raining for 1 month in babylon and the climbers told us we were very lucky to have 5 days of sun!



It's possible to climb in the rain, but the problem is the track to go to the crag.



It's a "jungle" track, you walk in the mud, you pulls you in trees and sometimes has fix ropes, to arrive there.






After 15min walking, you arrive to Babylon, a 10 years old crag, but for the moment, all the climbers go to Little babylon, 15min walking upper from Babylon, in a same kind of horrible track (Ceuse is an easy walk compare to here!). It's a crag discovered 1 year ago with routes from (23-33) 6c+ to 8c