Archive for 2010
BMC British Bouldering competition – 15th – 16th January at ExCel Centre
via thebmc.co.uk Britain’s premier bouldering competition will take place over the weekend of 15-16 January 2011. This year the BMC British Bouldering Championships will be held at the Outdoor Show in London at the ExCeL centre! This promises to be a fantastic and inspirational event. See you there!
BMC – Winter skills courses look like fantastic value for money
via thebmc.co.uk Want to get the right skills before you hit the white stuff? Sign up for a BMC members’ course at Plas y Brenin, the National Mountain Centre in Snowdonia. Following Nick Livesey’s recent article on Winter Climbing we’ve been looking for a winter skills course. The BMC are offering 3 – check them [...]
Major restoration project at Kinder Scout
via thebmc.co.uk The National Trust has secured over £2.5 million to carry out the next stage of major restoration work on Kinder Scout. The project will take place over 5 years starting in 2011 and will see vast areas of the bare and degraded blanket peat landscape restored by gully-blocking, brash spreading and moorland revegetation [...]
Top mountaineering tips – 5 part series: part 5
Hi RCUK fans. Here we are, week 5 of my mountaineering tips series. I hope you’ve enjoyed them and that they’ll serve to save you some bother when you’re next on an expedition.
An ascent of ‘The Fish’ on the South face of the Marmalada, by Paul Platt
In the late summer of 1995 a very good friend of mine, Steve Long and I flew to Italy with a single purpose, to climb a route called The Fish, on The South Face of the Marmalada. The route is 800m long but the difficulties finish at 500m. After about seven easier pitches the difficulties begin and the climbing is sustained somewhere between E3/5C and E6/6b.
Ron Fawcett wins Boardman-Tasker prize for ‘Rock Athlete’
Great video of Niall Grimes chatting to Ron Fawcett about Ron winning the Boardman-Tasker prize for his superb book, Rock Athlete, which we reviewed here on RCUK in the summer.
Winning films from the Kendal Mountain Festival
And the winners are….
Also included is a great video of Niall Grimes’ interview with Leo Holding… Enjoy.
Visual revamp for RCUK, the start of things to come…
Hi Folks,
For those of you who visit regularly, yes this is still Rock Climbing UK. We have given the site a face-lift. Again!
Read on to find out why we felt the need for a bit of cosmetic surgery.
Top mountaineering tips – 5 part series: part 4
Week 4 of our 5 part series of mountaineering tips
Improving your climbing photography – 12 week mini course – week12
Sadly this is the final installment of our climbing photography 12 week mini course. We hope you’ve enjoyed it…
BMC British Bouldering competition – 15th – 16th January at ExCel Centre
via thebmc.co.uk Britain’s premier bouldering competition will take place over the weekend of 15-16 January 2011. This year the BMC British Bouldering Championships will be held at the Outdoor Show in London at the ExCeL centre! This promises to be a fantastic and inspirational event. See you there!
BMC – Winter skills courses look like fantastic value for money
via thebmc.co.uk Want to get the right skills before you hit the white stuff? Sign up for a BMC members’ course at Plas y Brenin, the National Mountain Centre in Snowdonia. Following Nick Livesey’s recent article on Winter Climbing we’ve been looking for a winter skills course. The BMC are offering 3 – check them [...]
Major restoration project at Kinder Scout
via thebmc.co.uk The National Trust has secured over £2.5 million to carry out the next stage of major restoration work on Kinder Scout. The project will take place over 5 years starting in 2011 and will see vast areas of the bare and degraded blanket peat landscape restored by gully-blocking, brash spreading and moorland revegetation [...]
Top mountaineering tips – 5 part series: part 5
Hi RCUK fans. Here we are, week 5 of my mountaineering tips series. I hope you’ve enjoyed them and that they’ll serve to save you some bother when you’re next on an expedition.
An ascent of ‘The Fish’ on the South face of the Marmalada, by Paul Platt
In the late summer of 1995 a very good friend of mine, Steve Long and I flew to Italy with a single purpose, to climb a route called The Fish, on The South Face of the Marmalada. The route is 800m long but the difficulties finish at 500m. After about seven easier pitches the difficulties begin and the climbing is sustained somewhere between E3/5C and E6/6b.
Ron Fawcett wins Boardman-Tasker prize for ‘Rock Athlete’
Great video of Niall Grimes chatting to Ron Fawcett about Ron winning the Boardman-Tasker prize for his superb book, Rock Athlete, which we reviewed here on RCUK in the summer.
Winning films from the Kendal Mountain Festival
And the winners are….
Also included is a great video of Niall Grimes’ interview with Leo Holding… Enjoy.
Visual revamp for RCUK, the start of things to come…
Hi Folks,
For those of you who visit regularly, yes this is still Rock Climbing UK. We have given the site a face-lift. Again!
Read on to find out why we felt the need for a bit of cosmetic surgery.
Top mountaineering tips – 5 part series: part 4
Week 4 of our 5 part series of mountaineering tips
Improving your climbing photography – 12 week mini course – week12
Sadly this is the final installment of our climbing photography 12 week mini course. We hope you’ve enjoyed it…
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