Innsbruck World Championship 2018

October 3, 2018 Melinda Comments 0 Comment

The Paraclimbing World Championship in Innsbruck was an amazing experience for me. Just like in past years, the paraclimbing event was organized alongside the traditional climbing disciplines (lead, bouldering and speed), however, this year the organizers (Austria Climbing and IFSC) put a lot of attention to integrating paraclimbing properly into this 10-day celebration of climbing. As a result, the finalists of all paraclimbing categories got to climb on the impressively overhanging lead wall. This seemed as an impossibility to me at first, however, with the help of fixing huge downward hanging objects on the wall (which made the routes less overhanging), it became not only a possibility but a visually appealing and fun 3-D route. I was definitely very excited to have the chance to climb on it!

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Beszámoló a berlini paramászó napról

May 17, 2017 Melinda Comments 1 comment

Fotó: Antje Akkermann/DAV Sektion Berlin

Március 25-én rendeztük Berlinben az első mozgáskorlátozottaknak rendezett falmászó napot több mint 50 lelkes résztvevővel, akik közül sokan ekkor másztak életükben először falat. Voltak köztük látássérültek, vakok, egyik oldalukon részlegesen bénultak, születés vagy amputáció következtében alsó- vagy felsővégtaghiányosak és enyhén szellemileg korlátozottak is. Fiatal gyerekektől a középkorúakig, mindenki nagyon élvezte a kihívást, hogy feljussanak a fal tetejére. Huszan közülük jelezték, hogy szívesen jönnének máskor is falat mászni.

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Reporting on the Paraclimbing Day in Berlin

May 10, 2017 Melinda Comments 0 Comment

Photo: Antje Akkermann/DAV Sektion Berlin

It’s been already quite some time since the Paraclimbing Day in Berlin on 25 March. Somehow I’ve found it difficult to put my thoughts about the event into words even though the day was a great success. It has been quite a hectic time for me, but I was also waiting to hear more feedback from others. After all, this event was more about others than myself. I had two main objectives:

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Report von Paraclimbing Tag im Radio RBB

March 29, 2017 Melinda Comments 0 Comment

Tag des Paraclimbing

Am 25. März organisieren wir eine Veranstaltung “Klettern mit Handicap” im DAV Kletterzentrum Berlin. Wir laden Menschen mit Einschränkungen ein, die Klettern ausprobieren wollen oder mit Gleichgesinnten klettern und austauschen wollen.
Weitere Information finden Sie auf der Webseite von DAV Sektion Berlin.

My climbing story

February 21, 2017 Melinda Comments 0 Comment

It is only fitting to start my blog and website with the story of my life… but I promise to focus mostly on climbing! Actually, this piece was originally published in German in the Berliner Bergsteiger in January/February 2017 (read it here). The Hungarian translation was published on the website of the Hungarian Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Federation (read it here). And here you can read my original version:

I love the feeling of climbing. It makes me forget about everything else around me except for the movement of my body on the wall from one hold to another. In these moments, I am completely absorbed in solving the puzzle presented to me in the pattern of possible hand- and footholds with the objective of getting to the top of the route. It is almost like a form of meditation: I focus on the moment and follow my intuition.

Melinda Vigh

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