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Icebergs proved to be some of the most unpredictable natural landscapes to climb on. GoPro takes on the challenge.

Jump aboard the 63 ft. La Louise as GoPro media team members Zak Shelhamer and Justin Whiting direct pro climbers and friends Klemen Premrl, Aljaz Anderle. They search for the ultimate iceberg to summit.  According to the team, the frigid waters and dream-like, iceberg-laden landscape of Greenland’s Disko Bay sets the stage for GoPro

Premrl suggests that you need to respect icebergs.

“You need to listen to them. You need to be gentle. You don’t just jump on them and climb them for the sake of it. Climbing icebergs is a process of finding the right one, finding the right line, figuring out how you can approach it, and finally getting out of that boat and trying to climb it.”

The fact that two-thirds of an iceberg is under water showcases this pretty well. Team members have trained their whole life to do hard, and technically challenging climbing. To be able to do that type of climbing they needed to recognize dangerous situations and be able to avoid them.

According to Klemen Premrl, Icebergs proved to be some of the most unpredictable climbing he’s ever done. Premrl figured it out pretty soon after climbing the first iceberg that the team can only predict a small fraction of all the different factors, and for that reason it’s a lot more difficult to recognize the truly dangerous situations.

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