Communication Breakdown in the Land of Steepness and Looseness
There’s a mythical sun-kissed world, way out west, where the land meets the sea in a twisted mess of verticality and fragility: The Land of Steepness and Looseness a.k.a. Gogarth’s […]
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Naranjo de Bulnes or Picu Urriellu
Our (or rather “my” if I’m honest) rather ambitious agenda for this Paroi de Légende trip came in two parts: 1) aiming to bag three 1,000ft plus EDs on three […]
Petite Aiguille d’Ansabère, Vallée d’Aspe. South Spigolo
Our third Pyreneean objective from Parois de Légende took us back over the French border, and north west into Vallée d’Aspe, which is the next valley west of the Ossau […]
Tozal del Mallo, Ordesa: Las Brujas – Franco-Espagnol
An hour’s drive south east took us to the tiny town of Torla-Ordesa, and the launch point for exploration of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park – home to […]
Sud-Est Direct, Pic du Midi d’Ossau
Episode 12 of Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures touched down at Bilbao Airport (you might recall that our 2022 Utah adventure was inadvertently christened Episode 13, owing to a counting […]
A Trad Apprenticeship
Tash and Chris had got a week’s holiday and a first opportunity for ages to get some climbing done after the rigours of thesis writing. I was duly commissioned to […]
A Mixed Bag of Bolts
No, not a trip report from an expedition to ScrewFix (though perhaps that would be more exciting!), this is a roundup of the shower-dodging exploits from the last couple of […]
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