Ben Bransby has added a difficult new route to the quarried gritstone crag of Millstone—a popular Peak District venue where you wouldn't imagine there'd be any gaps left to fill-in.
Kyra Condie’s introduction to climbing was through a birthday party held at a climbing wall, aged 11. However, not long after this in 2010 she underwent spinal fusion surgery to correct a 70° ’S’ curve in her back.
Emma Twyford has become the first British female to have attained the magic 9a grade with her successful redpoint of The Big Bang on the evening of September 17th 2019.
On April 21st the bodies of Jess Roskelley, 36, David Lama, 28, and Hansjörg Auer, 35, were recovered from an avalanche field on Howse Peak in the Canadian Rockies.
Jamming my body as deep as possible into the chimney, I furiously scrabbled to get the slightest push through my feet. I was five ‘long’ metres above my last bolt placement and my muscles were slowly fatiguing.
In 1998 Paul Pritchard suffered terrible head injuries when he was hit by a TV-sized block on The Totem Pole sea stack in Tasmania. His slow recovery left him without the use of his right arm and only limited movement in his right leg.
Glenmore Lodge and DMM are pleased to announce a new partnership. This brings together Scotland’s National Outdoor Training Centre and DMM’s climbing equipment manufacturing expertise.
DMM will be taking ownership of the Stal Climbing brand. Looking ahead, Stal premium climbing wall anchors will be manufactured by DMM in Llanberis under its ISO 9001:2015 quality system and integrated into the DMM product range.
Exiting Lexington Airport from the UK we were greeted by clinging humidity and the white noise of cicadas. The ‘Bluegrass State’ of Kentucky felt more exotic than expected.
For Angus Kille, his ascent of Trauma is the realisation of an ambition that began with a formative climbing experience on that same crag. Angus takes up the story.
Ben Bransby has set himself the task of being the first person to climb every route on arguably the UK’s most popular crag - Stanage - the 'queen of gritstone'.
It’s not every day that a professor calls you up and asks if you can set-up some ropes on an ‘unclimbed’ mountain in Mozambique.
James McHaffie and Dan Varian have climbed a major new multi-pitch route on Skye’s Coir’-Uisg Buttress. Moonrise Kingdom (E9 6b, 6c, 6a/b) turned out to be a much stiffer proposition than the pair had envisaged.
James McHaffie took full advantage of an exceptional spell of good weather on Lundy Island to add two new E7s and finish-off the last of his remaining Lundy 'Extreme Rock routes'.
In February, Alex Luger and Hanno Schluge, climbed two new winter routes in Switzerland's Val Ferrera.
Previously Angus Kille had sent us a dispatch from Yangshuo but unusually chilly and damp weather meant it wasn’t long before he was heading to Laos.
Having spent the past month sport climbing in Spain, James McHaffie has wasted no time in switching to adventurous trad mode, with the first ascent of Nightmare Inauguration (E8 6b)
Pete Robins has spent the past twelve months or so purely focused on difficult new boulder problems; including plenty of committing highballs.
Angus Kille (pronounced with a silent 'e') is currently taking a couple of months out from life in north Wales to climb in South East Asia.
Gareth 'Gaz' Leah and Mexican big wall veteran Sergio 'Tiny' Almada have recently returned from a big wall adventure on the remote African island of São Tomé and Príncipe.
James McHaffie and Ryan Pasquill's first route on the Isle of Arran is one they'll be sure to remember, with an impressive onsight ascent of The Great Escape (E8 6b, 6c, 6b).
Eighteen years after a rock smashed into Paul Pritchard's skull, leaving him partially paralysed, and with expressive aphasia, he has returned to the scene of the accident in Tasmania and climbed the Totem Pole, closing a chapter on his life.
Tiffany Hensley and Gareth Leah are ambassadors for Escalando Fronteras (Climbing Borders), an initiative aimed at helping at-risk youth reach for a better future, and are six weeks into a four month stay in Mexico.
Alex Megos' ascent of Estado Critico at Siurana in Spain is widely accepted as the world's first 9a onsight.
