• From Chitwan National Park

  • From Namche Bazzar

  • From Canmore, Canadian Rock

  • From Ouray Ice Park

  • From Cwm Cowarch, Mid Wales

  • From Yosemite

  • From Tuolumne Meadows

Archives: Venues

Namche Bazzar

Trekking in the Himalayas is an all-time favourite for spectacular mountain scenery and the interesting Nepalese, Tibetan, and Buddhism cultures. Namche Bazzar is an essential stop on the main Khumbu trail. Most spend a couple of nights at this high level town to acclimatise and simply take in the incredible range of colour shops selling …

Canmore, Canadian Rock

Rock climbing in the Canadian Rockies. It’s a very short summer season, it can be cold anytime, and it can rain a lot too “Eh?”. But the limestone rock climbing in the Rockies is immaculate when you can get to it. Areas like the Ghost River Wilderness are unbeatable for world-class routes in a remote …

Ouray Ice Park

Cascade ice-fall climbing at Ouray’s ice park and beyond. There’s an awesome array of natural ice climbs a short distance from Ouray. But only a very short walk out of town it’s the climbs in the Ouray ice park itself that are undoubtedly the reason Ouray is an international ice climbing destination. These climbs are …

Bishop Rock

Sport rock climbing in Bishop. An escape from Yosemite should you get bad weather. Or maybe for bouldering? But, who travels to Yosemite to boulder? A lot do I understand, but if you are traveling to the USA surely bigger things beckon?

Tuolumne Meadows

Rock climbing at Tuolumne Meadows, within the Yosemite National Park. A higher cooler option when the Yosemite valley is a furnace in summer. Not that this is main reason to go, the meadows offer perhaps some of the very best – and runout – granite slab climbing in the world. Of course there’s utterly brilliant …