Archive for the ‘Climbing equipment’ category
Features climbing equipment that we have drooled over, spent our hard earned wages on and tested to destruction. If you have some climbing equipment that you would like to praise or pull to pieces on this site, please send your review to: gareth(at)rockclimbinguk.co.uk. If you sell or manufacture climbing equipment and you would like us to review it, please get in touch at the same email address and we’ll get straight back to you.
Climbing Harness Guide: Evolution, Features and Choosing the Right Harness
In Joe Simpson’s autobiography This Game of Ghosts he gives a tense account of an accident on the Dru in the early 1980s. A bivi ledge collapsed, leaving Simpson and his climbing partner dangling from a dodgy peg and staring at a two thousand foot drop. They spent twelve hours hanging there. “It was not [...]
Everything You Needed to Know About Carabiners But Never Dared to Ask
It used to so simple back in the ‘golden age’ of climbing – or so the older climbers tell us! All you did was go into your local climbing shop, choose from either a snap-gate or screw-gate carabiner, pay your 3 shillings and that was it – you were ready to go climb a new [...]
The NUT iPhone case now available in multiple colours
You might remember I quite recently reviewed a groovy looking iPhone case called The NUT, and we ran a facebook competition, giving one away. At the time, the NUT was only available in black. Well it is now available in a glorious selection of bright, funky colours. Head over to the Okoqu store for the [...]
Win a funky beanbag worth more than 100 quid – closes Midnight tonight!
OK, so this is not strictly a piece of climbing equipment but it is a serious piece of post-climbing, chilling kit! My good friends over at b-bag are giving away one of their fantastic new quilted Mighty-b b-bags. All you have to do for a chance to win is head over to their Facebook page [...]
Mammut Obelisk DLX Approach Shoe Review
Last month, having arranged a weekend of climbing in Snowdonia, I realised rather late in the day that I didn’t have any approach shoes (I had thrown my old ones away after trashing them in a rare spate of gardening). Luckily whilst signing in for a climbing session at Rock City in Hull, I noticed [...]
How To: Indoor Climbing and Training
Winter can be a frustrating time for rock climbers. As the nights begin to draw in and temperatures cool down, it becomes harder to get out on rock as often as you’ve become used to through the summer. For many, the balance between outdoor and indoor climbing will have to shift towards pulling on plastic [...]
Wild Country Helium Carabiner Review
Reviewing the Wild Country Helium carabiner isn’t really a difficult job for me. I’ve been climbing with them for the past 7 years, taking them all over the place. Simply put, The Helium is an amazing carabiner, considered by many to be the ultimate ‘all rounder’, from winter routes where its big shape and clean [...]
5 Essential Pieces of Kit for the Beginner Climber
So, you’ve tried some climbing. You’ve been to the climbing wall a few times, your dreams are increasingly full of visions of you performing complicated and strangely beautiful climbing moves, and you can’t walk past a wall without picking out potential routes for traversing. Or maybe you’ve had your first taste of outdoor climbing; a [...]
Patagonia Capilene® Lightweight 2 T-Shirt Review
We’ve had a good run of weather recently, which has meant climbing or bouldering in warm conditions. With this in mind let me introduce you to the Capiline® 2 T-Shirt from Patagonia. What the manufacturer says Our most breathable synthetic base-layer keeps your dry and comfortable Made for early season singletrack and long, sweeping Yosemite [...]
The New Petzl GriGri2 – Full Review
When I first heard in July 2010 that Petzl were to release an updated version of the GriGri my thoughts followed one particular chain, and that was something along the lines of … “Petzl must think they’ve got something pretty special going on if they are updating the GriGri” The GriGri has become one of [...]
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