Durmitor National Park – Montenegro cragging
Heading south from Banja Luka, we took a route via Sarajevo, where there’s a lot of climbing and a dedicated chunk in the guidebook. Closer investigation reveals it’s either quite […]
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Tijesno Canyon, Banja Luka
Banja Luka is BiH’s second city, about four hours north of Mostar (one of those weather-induced wrinkles in the obvious trajectory) and a similar distance north of Sarajevo. The drive […]
More climbing around Mostar
Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in BiH and the largest in Herzegovina. It is named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the […]
Blagaj – into Bosnia (or strictly Herzegovina)
Blagaj is a town just south of Mostar in Herzegovina, most famous for the spring of the Buna river which emerges from a cave at the foot of some major […]
Čikola revisited
We’d planned to cross into Bosnia from near Zagreb, to enter the north of the country and explore the climbing in some kind of logical sequence. The weather had other […]
Another Balkan Odyssey – 3 Crags, 1,000 miles and a Ruby Wedding
Rockaroundtheworld is back on the road, on another Balkan Odyssey (our third?) This one could be sub-titled “to Bosnia and Beyond!” but that’s a fair schlep, so here’s the first […]
Angel Face, Beinn Eighe
The final installment in my Scottish Hard Rock obsession (until some opportunist produces HR3!) took us to Torridon. Arriving at the free/donations campsite provided by the village (they’ve got a […]
Vulcan Wall, Skye
With the original edition of Hard Rock finally ticked in the spring… … you’d think I’d have hung up my HR boots, but “the devil makes work for idle hands”. […]
BMC Basecamp
It’s not all endless zoom and emails in the BMC hot seat, and by far the most rewarding bits of the job are getting out on the hill with our […]
Out-Flanking Floris
Jake had a couple of days’ window before starting a stretch of night shifts, but the imminent arrival of Storm Floris sweeping in from the west was looking like scuppering […]
Three days in North Wales – 3 different rock types on 3 new (to me) crags
We’ve spent much of the spring and summer in North Wales, from celebrating the Centenary of the CC hut at Helyg, to the BMC International Meet in the Pass… .. […]
Celebrations in The County
I got to know the lovely folks in the Northumbrian Mountaineering Club when they invited me up to deliver a Slideshow to raise funds for CAC last year I had […]
Pen Llŷn Liaisons (not so Dangerous!)
The Llŷn Peninsula extends for over 30 miles into the Irish Sea, and if you count all the crinkles it doesn’t take a genius to work out there’s getting on for […]
BMC International Meet and Gogarth
Brilliant to re-launch the BMC’s International Climbing Meet after an eight year gap (another victim of Covid that’s taken a while to get back on its feet). With the hiatus […]
Chamonix – Cragging with Altitude
I’ve always thought of Alpine climbing as a two weeks minimum trip, what with travel, acclimitisation and fickle weather, so I was a bit uncertain when Jake suggested a quick-hit […]
Pembroke quick hit
Big rain and big winds were forecast to sweep in from the west across Britain for much of the weekend. Soggy pretty much everywhere, but a couple of the more […]
Spring Catch Up
Wow – June already! A glance at the blog would suggest I’ve been slacking since our return from Italy, with only a couple of posts through April and May. Admittedly […]
Pabbay
Pabbay and it’s neighbour Mingulay have become part of the British climbing Hall of Fame over the last decade, jostling in amongst the established royalty of Gogarth, Cloggy, Scafell and […]
South Ridge Direct, Rosa Pinnacle, Arran – Hard Rock in the Bag
I started my Hard Rock journey in 1987, almost 40 years ago, with Helen on an ascent of Gimmer Crack. Here’s the entry from her climbing journal of 29 September… […]
Bourgogne Bonus
As the clock ticked down towards the end of our time away, it was looking like we might be beating an early retreat across the Channel. Thoughts of a side […]
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