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THE ENORMOCAST – A slice of climbing life for your listening pleasure
You may or may not be familiar with the popular social networking site that is Twitter – if you are, great … if not, where the hell have you been for the last few years?! Anyhow, insults aside, I use Twitter. Regularly. If you do use Twitter, then you may or may not be aware [...]
NECTAR – Sports Fuel Concentrate
As climbers we are always looking for the secret ingredient to take us to the next level. It’s a harsh reality, but there are no magic potions or miracles that will instantly transform us into the next Adam Ondra or Sasha Digiulian. For the majority of us, if we want to take our climbing to [...]
Sonnie Trotter – Love at onsight
Now I love a spot of bromance at the best of times…the sultry tones of Sharma as he speaks with his newly adopted Spanish/American accent are unrivalled. Much the same as knowing you’ll never see a display of human muscle and power as brilliant as that of, well, Sharma again I suppose, violently crushing his [...]
Light relief
CARLO TRAVERSI is very much a part of the bouldering ‘nu skool’. One of the USA’s top boulderers at 23 years old, he is the epitome of a ‘powerful climber’. His style is aggressive & dynamic. The list of first ascents & repeats by his name speaks for itself; A successful ascent of the Daniel [...]
Inspiration on all levels
Here at RCUK we like you to see the best quality climbing videos available. Whether it be famous climbers, famous routes, excellent editing or an inspiring story, we choose the videos because we enjoy them and we hope that you will too. The video below is a short one from DPM, a climbing website/magazine based [...]
Century Crack Trailer
OK, so it’s not the most recent of news … and YES we have talked about this before. BUT, we challenge you to watch this trailer and tell us that you didn’t get goosebumps, that the strange feeling deep in the pit of your stomach when the training scenes play through didn’t really happen AND [...]
Islands: Traditional Tales of Lakeland Climbing
When we saw the following film at the Kendal Film Festival in November, we were blown away by the excellent stories unified & produced by Land & Sky Media. It’s the first film to feature at the festival from Land & Sky Media and it was received with a very warm welcome. It’s been a [...]
Video: Webb-Parsons Comes to UK
Our Fine Land lays claim to some of the finest climbing in the world, and is regarded by most as the birthplace of modern mountaineering as we know it. Over the hundred and fifty or so years of climbing history that we have accumulated, the UK has received visits from some of the greatest & [...]
COLD WARS – Video Profile
“The joy of climbing is a private thing between me and climbing…Our relationship is complicated” Andy Kirkpatrick The US magazine Climbing once described Andy Kirkpatrick as a climber with a “strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, with a reputation “for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return [...]
A Man On A Mission – Super 8
At 40 years old, being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes is not the best news for anyone to receive. Put yourself in the boots of a professional expedition mountaineer; spending days, weeks and maybe months at a time away from civilisation… receiving this news would surely signal the end of such an extreme career? Jerry [...]
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