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Posts that I highly recommend that you read…
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 [...]
Turbo Charged New Year’s Training Resolutions
With the arrival of the New Year, now’s a perfect time to plan your rock climbing objectives for 2012 and develop a training program that will help achieve them. These objectives can be anything from doing your first E1, increasing your climbing grade from 7a to 7c or doing a specific route. Using a Scoring [...]
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 [...]
The Eiger – Triumph and Tragedy, and an Evening at the RGS
It is some 45 years since John Harlin fell to his death from the Eiger Nordwand in 1966, however the pain and power of the event still looms large in the psyche of Sir Chris Bonnington. On Thursday 1st December I had the pleasure of hearing him speak on the subject at the Royal Geographical [...]
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 [...]
You Can Join a Search and Rescue Team Even if You don’t Live Near Mountains
At the end of 2009 I was looking for a new hobby when I saw on the news the International rescue teams heading to Italy following an earthquake in the Abruzzi region and thought “I could do that”. Unfortunately when I looked into it with my employer I was told that I’d have to take [...]
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 [...]
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 Life Less Ordinary – One Man’s Journey to a Career on Rock
A door to another world; an epiphany; a light turned on – I’ve used all the cliches over the years. But however it’s described my light-bulb moment was being taken climbing with the scouts when I was 12. For someone who’d never had anything in particular to focus on climbing was the full package – [...]
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