Climbing Presten at Lofoten - Vestpillaren Direct under midnight sun

During the midsummer week I got to tick off one of my long standing dreams and climbed Presten in the islands of Lofoten in Norway! Tuomas Määttä and myself climbed Vestpillaren Direct (N6/475m). The route is 12 pitches long and is a trad climb. Lower part of the wall (pitches 1-5) have bolted anchors. I was not able to free all of the pitches so I do need to go back up there soon as possible.

The climbing is quite fingery on slaby settings. We carried a standard rack of doubles from 0.3-2, a size 3 + 4 and some extra smaller (under 0.3 size) cams plus nuts. We used 60 meter double /half ropes.

I have never actually filmed an multipitch climb before so sorry for the shaky GoPro footage, was not able bring a heftier camera up there this time! The drone shots are mine and from couple years back, some of my friend are climbing the same route/wall so hence there is bit of my own stock footage here.

Flying a drone in Norway: https://luftfartstilsynet.no/en/drone...
Topo: https://treeline.fi/products/lofoten-... (the one of the authors Thorbjörn Enevold) has a restaurant/climbing shop in Hennigsvaer village, go and say hi!)
Music: Epidemic Sounds - Guustavv - Sunday Travels

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