Jan used everything you can think of in this route: friends, hooks, copperheads, rope-ladders (etriers) and he opened the route in rope-solo technique.
| A long and technically difficult horizontal traverse
along the quay wall near the Willemsbrug. Jan used his
modified "HILTI 10A" battery-powered hand-drill
to put up the route in the hard granite wall and in the
concrete. Jan used everything you can think of in this route: friends, hooks, copperheads, rope-ladders (etriers) and he opened the route in rope-solo technique. |
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| This is one of the PETZL-hooks he put in the overhanging part under the stairs. The police heard him drilling but did not catch him in the act. They said: "What would you say if someone did that in your living room?". Jan answered: "I wish I could climb like this in my living room". | |
Jan van der Meulen is climbing the artificial route under the Willemsbrug. I am securing him, and the camera team is filming.
The route is illegal. The hooks have been drilled into municipal property.
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© 1998 Petr Kazil - 2 October 1998