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From Cape Town
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From Black Forest Climbing Meet
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From BMC Lundy Festival 2017
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From Tour Germaine
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From Cornish BMC International Meet
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From BMC 2017 AGM
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From Costa Blanca '16/'17
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From Autumn Staycation
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From Another Dry Lakeland Bank Holiday
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
We’ve wanted to visit South Africa for years and years, and this year events conspired to make it possible…
Last week we were rock climbing and visiting friends in the south half of Germany’s Black Forest, Schwarzwald Süd…
Lundy is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most lovely destinations. It has so much to offer everyone in so many different ways! And not just climbers – ornithologists, marine life lovers, ecologists, people with interests in historic places, those who just want to escape to somewhere quiet with no traffic, etc., etc!
Steve, Laetitia, Zac, and I set off for what looked like an easily accessible and long (10 pitches) relatively easy (max grade 5+) rock climb. The guidebook said it was a short easy approach. It turned out to be super sunny, hot, very uphill, and well over an hour long. It was tough work for …
I just attended my fifth BMC International Meet, and my third in Cornwall based at the Climbers’ Club Count House hut. These meets are an amazing opportunity for over thirty climbers from all over the world to come to the UK to sample some of what makes our world class traditional climbing so special. Plus …
The 2017 BMC AGM was held on the 22nd April at Plas y Brenin, coincidentally Earth Day (more on that later). The AGM promised to be an extraordinarily complex event with two major motions on the agenda including a motion of no confidence in the BMC executive. Perhaps it was these issues, and the CC’s …
Just back in the UK from a ace extended week in the Costa Blanca. There was a massive gang of people there over the New Year period and so we were lucky enough to snag a doss with our friends Steve & Sandra! 😀 Here are a few pictures from the trip…
I’d had the week booked off from work for months, but we hadn’t got around to booking anything.
After an amazing start to the summer weather in May and early June, July and August have been quite disappointing really. More wet, grey, and disappointing weather days than the proper summer sunshine we had hoped for. 🙁 However, despite that we’ve been out and about on the Lakeland crags a fair bit. 🙂 Then, …
