Sunny Intervals
I got one of those “your memories on Facebook from 4 years ago” notifications the other day… It had me scratching my head. Where was that shirtless climbing under stunning […]
Category Archives: UK
Chasing the Ephemeral
I signed off my last post with the first snows of winter, and that evening a forecasted high pressure / blue-skies day had my thoughts turning to a quick fix […]
Lockdown 2.0
Not the November we’d planned (which would have involved chasing the sun around Europe’s finest climbing spots!) but you’ve got to make the most of what you’ve got… Having The […]
Gordale take 2 – Light and Deliverance
After celebrating my last birthday in Eldorado Canyon, https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2019/09/01/outer-space-eldorado-canyon-and-a-memorable-birthday/ the current travel situation was only ever going to make it harder to come up with an appropriate follow-up Anniversary Adventure […]
Craig y Forwen
The coat tails of Storm Ellen were flapping around Britain, bringing lashing rain, as Andy and I set off for the crag on Saturday morning. The wipers were still on […]
Beeston Tor
Where in Provence are we?… Okay, it’s a trick question of course, and the title is a bit of a giveaway, but Beeston is one of the few bits of […]
Limestone pick n mix
I’ve deliberately dialed down the blogging of visits to familiar “holes in the ground” – there’s only so much you can say about Harpur Hill and the Stoney crags, and […]
Dovedale Groove
Here’s a route that’s been on my tick list for 35 years, ever since it appeared in the iconic TV series: Lakeland Rock. This featured Chris Bonington charting the development […]
Swordfish – Stackpole Head
There’s really no excuse for visiting Pembroke in August and going to a crag that isn’t bird banned the rest of the year. Stackpole Head is one of the major […]
Deep Throat and a Monster Whipper
That got your attention! But rest assured that RockAroundTheWorld hasn’t morphed into a sleaze site; the title accurately reflects the highlights of the first couple of days of another visit […]
Blue Scar and Kilnsey – Two greats of Yorkshire Limestone
With Jake taking up residence in the White Rose county, we decided to meet up for a Yorkshire Limestone mini-break before he started his first foundation placement. We planned for […]
Electric Quarry, Stoney
If you’ve driven through Stoney any time since lockdown you can’t fail to have witnessed the huge “spike” in popularity of the bolt-clipping hereabouts. Every lay-by, pull-off and scrape on […]
Giltar Slabs – Penally East
We only discovered the climbing around Penally last year, so had plenty more of this quiet Pembrokeshire backwater to explore. Only a mile or so east of Mother Carey’s, Penally […]
A Chance Encounter with the hardest HVS in the world, and more Mowing Word
Something old and something new for today’s itinerary – the boys fancied Mowing Word which we were happy to go along with despite a few recent visits ( https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2019/04/18/mowing-word-2/ https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2019/07/01/stand-by-to-boogie-more-mowing-word-fun/) […]
There’ll be a welcome at the seaside – Pembroke’s open for business!
With restrictions easing in Scotland and Wales we had a choice to make for the next stage of getting RockAroundTheWorld back on the road. In the end, the forecast made […]
Rock Around Yorkshire
It’s a case of baby steps as RockAroundTheWorld emerges from lockdown, and our first taste of van life (now that some campsites are opening) was a trip to North Yorkshire. […]
A Feast on The East
According to Hard Rock: “The East Buttress of Scafell is the finest crag in The Lakes. A great lonely crag. Its walls overhang. Water drips out instead of down.” Quite […]
Virtual Gogarth Meet and Quiz
Every June, for almost 20 years, Helen and I have organised The Gogarth Meet. Despite my best efforts, and the climbing on The Best Crag In The World, this has […]
Nesscliffe – Trouble in Toytown
We visited Nesscliffe a couple of years ago, with the focus very much on Jake’s ambition to lead his first E7. That trip turned out well… https://www.google.com/amp/s/rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/06/03/nesscliffe-and-jakes-first-e7/amp/ …and I’d been […]
Curbar – a John Allen homage
Jake is back home for a while and keen to get some Peak climbing in the bag, and a fairly arbitrary decision saw us pick Curbar for a rather damp […]
