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I noticed that Swiss Alpine Guides in Interlaken were running an ice climbing day up on the Steinegletscher and decided to go along. I’ve never really done much ice climbing apart from on mixed routes which have been mostly rock. I also thought it would interesting to see how effective some crampons I’d bought recently were on vertical ice. Normally I only use them steep snow and glacier travel.

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