La Reunion, finally back after 16 years

La REUNION 

is a French country in the Indian Ocean, a few canyons are worldwide classics

Lava flows, there are nice lava caves to visit

Bird nest

Vanilla flower

Riviere des Roches

Trou Blanc

Climbing on the Pain de Sucre, classic route on solid basalt rock

Down the final part of Fleurs Jaunes canyon, big local classic

Takamaka 3

Part of the walk out of Takamaka 3...

Trou de Fer, beginning

Playing above the 270 meters waterfall

Big air

Base of the Trou de Fer, before Bras Caverne.

Caverne du Minotaure

Bras Rouge supérieur

Bras Rouge

Bras Rouge is very red sometimes...

Fleurs Jaunes

Wonder of nature

Fleurs Jaunes canyon into the Pain de Sucre solid basalt

Bras Sec- Dudu, "little" canyons

Riviere des Roches final drop, you can jump 18 meters...

Luckily water is not flowing here in this "big" pool, Takamaka 1

Takamaka 1, mini Trou de Fer

Jungle climbing out Takamaka

Trou Blanc

Ravine Blanche, 400 meters

Takamaka 3

Trou de Fer before big falls

Bras Caverne 270 meter waterfall

Bras Caverne, Trou de Fer

Alberto and me, the only "Italians"

Langertal, exploration

LANGERTALBACH , exploration...

No problem here, the walk in is nice, see on the right some big springs !

Just a minor series of waterfalls

The Simmental valley, here cows grow in cans...

Canyon starts nicely narrow and shaped enough to say it's OK

Drilling next nice fall

WUAUUU suddenly we plunge in a narrow 30 meter deep crack, large 1 meter or less

Very slotty american style, we climb down small drops

Out from the slot

Here we rappel in open walls

Now the rock is very loose, nothing is stable, i'm hit by 2 rocks moved by the rope, not happy !

A few drop and we are out from this nightmare

Walk out very relaxing, the crack section is high in the middle

How to cut wood using legs, Ian where are you ?

People as usual looking at us like martians..

On the way down we open this little side canyon, good job.

I take pictures from the bridge, no jumps here sorry !

Segnes, always number one.

SEGNES, best canyon on the planet, just my opinion :-)

Team October 2014: Pizza, Holzi, Thomas, Natascha and me.

Start immediately to look around the corners !

Everywhere magic perfect shapes

This was with Andy Senn

Big siphon

Flow is quite high, probably the maximum possible before hydraulics starts to become dangerous

No picture can get all what i see

Every detail is amazing

Out for a few minutes then down again in the dark narrow

Last waterfalls from the exit, not easy to take many pictures in this canyon

Balmhorn, verticality training

Balmhorn canyon

Dal piano alla verticalità totale, il "sentiero" si trova sulla parete di destra...

Costruito metro per metro ed abbarbicato alla roccia, porta ad un rifugio base per salite alpinistiche

Esposizione...

L'inizio promette bene, questo canyon è già stato sceso da altri amici

Le Alpi sono sempre un belvedere

Thomas, grande appassionato

Passaggio interessante, il canyon invece di continuare dritto dov'è logico
ha perforato la parete a destra modificando il percorso dell'acqua

Ancora calate tranquille

Si comincia a verticalizzare, ottimo training per il viaggio alla Reunion !

Le ragazze ci danno dentro

Una 100 metri...

Ancora 100 metri per toccare il fondovalle

Vista sulla Gasteretal a monte di Kandersteg, ci sono almeno 5 canyon qui in giro

Questo lo faremo il prossimo weekend

Notare la particolare "S" formata dalle pieghe della roccia