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Why you should always pay attention when belaying …
It’s happened to us all, we get distracted at the crag or the wall when we’re belaying & our concentration is no longer on the climber…but on the distraction. The majority of these instances end with us quickly switching our focus back to where it should be and no harm is done. Sometimes, we’re not [...]
It’s all just too easy …
… or so it would seem for the on-form Jordan Buys at present. Flashes of various E7′s & E8′s not to mention a ground-up attempt (resulting in a ground fall) on the grit test piece The Promise E9 7a are common-place for him at the moment. His tick-list is impressive to say the least. One [...]
KENDAL WALL – VIDEO
If you have been keeping up to date with the articles here at RCUK, you will have read the lengthy feature on the Kendal Wall re-launch on the 4th – 6th November. Dom Bush of Land & Sky Media was on-site all day, documenting the competition, master classes & activities that went on. Dom commented: [...]
Winter Bouldering – Get Your Psyche On!
Days seem impossibly short. Nights grow uncomfortably longer. Trees shed their proud, summer plumage, in a gentle acquiescence. A steady flow of down jackets, long-sleeve base-layers & a multitude of brightly coloured knitted hats converge around rocks like monks at a shrine. Winter is upon us. It seems that here in the UK, the weather [...]
FACING THE ROCK – Trailer
Not To Be Taken Away has to be one of the most aesthetic lines of any climbing discipline, on any rock type, in any part of the world. The beauty of this beast is the long, steep ramp that traverses one of the best know grit stone blocks, the Grand Hotel at Stanage. It is [...]
Birkett Opens Winter Line on Bowderstone?!
Dave Birkett has excelled himself again by making another first ascent of one the most famous previously unclimbed winter lines in the world. The video below shows the Cumbrian Stone Mason putting his biceps to good use and sending the longstanding winter project Without Rime or Reason at the internationally renowned bouldering venue … The [...]
Kendal Wall – Grand Re-Opening
It’s been an accumulation of more than two years of meticulous planning, hard graft & a vast building project … but last weekend, Kendal Wall, at the Lakeland Climbing Centre officially re-opened it’s doors to the public. Marked with a grand day of climbing, bouldering, coaching & lectures the occasion came with the promise of [...]
Islands Trailer
Kendal Film Festival is almost upon us… It’s that time of year again when the climbing community of the world is getting ready to flock to Kendal for a weekend of the finest films, beer & banter. We thought we’d get you in the mood with a trailer for a film premiering at the festival [...]
Mescalito goes free…?
“I climb for the long, difficult journeys that have little chance of success but teach me the most. I climb to be in the environment that makes me feel like anything is possible. I climb to push myself to the limit of my physical and mental abilities, so that I can discover what I am [...]
A thing of legend…
What happens when you put three 8C boulderers, a double world champion & a rising star in a room full of the hardest competition blocs ever set … each pitted against the rest to be crowned the best of the La Sportiva Legends? You get one hell of a competition, that’s what! The ‘La Sportva-Legends [...]
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