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ShuangQiaoGou
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12th
February 2004
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| line dancing | ||||
| another long trek in to get to the ice | ||||
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| frozen cascades | ||||
| climbing up the multiple frozen small cascades to get to the long pillar | ||||
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| side steppin' | ||||
| easy walking with crampons up the icy cascades | ||||
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| solo | ||||
| we had to climb a few grade 3 and 4 walls during our ascend | ||||
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| protection | ||||
| setting up ice protection for a lesson on setting quick anchors on multipitch climbs | ||||
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| go there! | ||||
| 'go touch that block of ice and come back!' | ||||
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| body belay | ||||
| roped up and alternating turns to lead while traversing the cascades | ||||
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| 4 x 4 | ||||
| sometime is is still easier to use all fours even on the easy grade climbs | ||||
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| more solo | ||||
| Sun Bin solos up a grade 4 wall | ||||
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| standing tall | ||||
| HuLiXing, an avid sportsman and triathlete from HuaiRou | ||||
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| the crawl | ||||
| Ding Ding climbing up the cascades | ||||
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| high in the sky | ||||
| Sky awaiting his turn to climb; the valley floor is some 200 m below us | ||||
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| icicles | ||||
| studying the pillar for the best route up | ||||
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| vertical limit | ||||
| Sun Bin in action... a grade 6 vertical climb | ||||
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| pillar | ||||
| the pillar from afar showing the long vertical climb up to the crux | ||||
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| hanging on | ||||
| Sun Bin hanging on one hold as he rests his right hand | ||||
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| descend | ||||
| four 50 m abseil pitches to descend back down to the waterfall base | ||||
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| misty mountain | ||||
| it started snowing again as we reached the valley floor | ||||
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| dancing queen | ||||
| the evening we were treated to a warm traditional Tibetan cerebration of song, dance, drink and food | ||||
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| fiesta | ||||
| roasting a lamb over a open fire in cerebration | ||||
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