Christian Pondella Photo Blog

During the fall of 2010 and the early part of winter I have spent most of my free time ice climbing. I was hooked and all I wanted to do was swing my ices tools and hear that thug as they penetrate the ice. Fortunately I have great friends who have the same addictions as I do so it was always easy to get a partner to climb with.  As fall turned to winter we went from climbing the alpine ice couloirs to the vertical water ice in Lee Vining.

Then the phone rang one day and it was my good friend Will Gadd (one of the worlds best ice climbers) asking me if I wanted to go to Norway with our are good bud and entertaining friend Andreas Spak (Norwegian local) to climb and shoot them in hunt of first ascents, rumors of 300 meter vertical frozen waterfalls. “Sign me up!” I do not think I have ever been more excited for a trip.

Well, to say the least this trip has met all expectations and then some! Not only have I taken some of the most incredible photos ever, I have been fortunate enough to follow Will up some of these monsters.

Below are a few snap shots of some of the waterfalls, the climbing photos will get posted later as we are shooting and writing a story for a magazine.

Check out Will’s blog for some more details about the climbs, plus there is some really cool other stuff on there.