My first Deep Water Solo route

Limestone and DWS

The water makes you hands soft, and the limestone is sharp, so climbing is hard on your fingers.

DWS Deep Water Solo Climbing

The tides were perfect for DWS today, so we (14 climbers) went into ha long bay and did DWS for the whole day, i am so stoked!!! , it was awesome, words can't describe. I am starting to talk like a vietnameese :)

I did 3 DWS routes and 2 aborted starts, hehe, it is quite difficult to get on from the basket boat, but once you are on the rock it is cool.

Every Day is a Pearl

Explored Catba Town, Back Streets,Markets and Ancient Burial grounds

Boat Trip to Moddley Beach where we climbed four 14's and one 15 on tiger beach. awesome lunch.

Rented Motorbikes most days and went to Butterfly Valey to climb, I did a 16 and led my first french 6a (18), taking 2 huge lead falls of over 3 meters. awesome lunch.

Got lift on motorbikes to catba nature reserve, did 12km hike through forests, had nice lunch, took boat back stopping 30min on monkey island, and then bikes back to town.

Catba Town - Vietnam

I made it to vietnam in 1 piece, it was quite a culture shock at first, but i am getting into it now, there are so many things to do here on catba island, enougth for a whole lifetime, but i will try and do some at least. Going out into ha long tomorrow for some climbing and DWS, climbined a route slo is working in the shop and spotted slo. will tell you more later, but anything is possible in vietnam, you can even carry a frige on a moterbike, and you are nothing if you don't have a hooter. Got to sleep now, as tommooow is a big day. J