ウド・ノイマンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ウド・ノイマンInstagram)「My first rock climbing trip to the US, forty years ago with @ingoheyland After climbing not even for one years we felt experienced enough to takle Yosemite bigwalls. The book Yosemite climber and the books and photos of Reinhard Karl was the reason I was fascinated with climbing after all! Our plan was to warm up in the classic areas of the time while hitchhiking across the US. Well, things went not according to plan and it still gives me shivers what careless idiots we were and how easily things could have gone terribly wrong on this trip. From getting robbed by raccoons on the first night to endlessly waiting for a lift, for traveling like we did you have to be young and ignorant. After hideous adventures we arrived Eldorado Canyon were we managed to get caught by violent storms during every climb. In Colorado we also finally realized that we needed a car. We got ourselves a Buick Belair that we drove without insurance to and around California. As you can see, we didn’t have friends (the only camping devices at the time) which, looking back, might have saved us from getting ourselves into even more trouble like for example climbing past the point of no return on Half Dome. I did the climbs and big walls that we attempted more than ten years later and was shocked about our arrogance. The end of the trip we stayed in Joshua Tree where it was way to hot for climbing but I fell in love with the place and made plans to stay for longer, what I did during the winter of 1985-1986, but this is a different story. Let me know if you have questions to the respective photos. Music inspired by the 10-song rotation radio stations played in the summer of 1983. #rockclimbing #adventureofalifetime #yosemitenationalpark #bigwallclimbing」9月28日 22時51分