Crack Baby | Stephan Siegrist leads tribute ice route in Kandersteg, 30 years after the first ascent
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2023
- Three decades after the first ascent, alpinist Stephan Siegrist leads an expedition to retrace the steps of the climbers who first topped the classic Swiss ice route Crack Baby (IV WI6; 350m).
On Feb. 15 1993, Swiss climbers Xaver Bongard and Michael Gruber made the first ascent of Crack Baby, an 11-pitch ice climb near Kandersteg in Switzerland. The 350m line has since become one of the most iconic ice climbs in Europe. Just one year after opening the route, Bongard was killed in a BASE jumping accident in Lauterbrunnen. Among the many admirers he left behind was young aspiring alpinist Stef Seigrist, who looked up to the 30-year-old as a friend and mentor. In his new film, Siegrist takes Gruber back to the Breitwangflue to pay tribute to Bongard. For Gruber’s first attempt at the route since opening it 30 years ago, the pair dust off some of the original gear to get the job done in style. - Sport
Wow! Bravo! What a wonderful tribute to Xaver & Michael for their great ice climb. Thank you Stephan for telling this story!😊
Beautiful film!
What a beautiful film
Love this!!!!
Xaver Bongard 👍 and the memorable The Great Trango Tower, Bon Voyage ！
Cool Tribute to Xaver!
Great video!
bruh, damnnnnn, that looks so good
wow very nice content friend
i dont know how the ice conditions are still so good 30 years later! im sure they looked farther into it than the video shows
It did not form up this year. Very little did so many are in the United States instead.
MAMMUT .
Well well well. What do we have here?
Couldn't eliminate the pegboard factor i guess 🙃🙃
Magnifique mais les crampons et chaussures ne sont pas d origine
You watch this and Marc-Andre LeClerc and it's night and day. LeClerc is one with the mountain. Everyone else is a fish out of water.
yeah but dude still led every pitch up that giant WI6 and it didn't look like he had to work that hard . soooo...... props for that .
Marc-Andre is in a mountain unfortunately….
Yes he is but in many ways, it's like he was a child of the mountains who happened to enter the human world and simply returned home. I'm not overly spritual, but seeing LeClerc's story and seeing the things he did, a big part of me believes he truly was one with the mountains. It's like the mountains speak to him: "Here is a safe hold. Here's not a safe hold. This is the path up, Mark" So him disappearing in the mountains doing what he loved, to me it's just the mountain taking back their child or him returning home.
Definitely agree with you and it’s a great way to view the situation of him being gone. I’m sure we will see the likes of Marc Andre in our lifetime again as there are many people pushing the limits of what humans can do in all sports. Marc Andre was a special soul for sure and I believe he didn’t have a long future ahead with what was in his scope. There’s young and bold but not old and bold, the mountains will win, they typically do. Back to the video, the pioneers of early mountain sports deserve mad respect for there ambition and success.
I don't know man David llama swims pretty well or at least did he also is in the mountain now damn avalanches
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