Right Angle 60th Anniversary
If you haven’t already read it, Iain Peters account of the discovery and subsequent first ascent of Right Angle is well worth seeking out – an amusing account of climbing […]
Category Archives: UK
Cornish Capers
We continued our tour of the south west by taking in the joint Rucksack Club / Climbers Club meet at the perfectly-positioned Count House atop Bosigran. It kinda made sense, […]
Skeleton Ridge
One of my first jobs in the BMC “hot seat” was to write to the National Trust in support of efforts by the access team to re-open access to the […]
“Little Adventures” in Pembroke
A week in Pembroke was the perfect venue for upping my post-op leading game into the VS / HVS zone. In a different situation, I might have felt the following […]
Crummackdale
A mini blog post to shed some light on this modest but charming crag in The Dales – can’t believe we’ve never visited. Perhaps we’ve been lured to the dark […]
Three Corners of LlÅ·n
Paul and Andy were free for a few days and keen to explore some uncharted (for them) territory – would I be up for some guiding duties on the LlÅ·n […]
Cloggy Beyond Cancer
Before I set any alarm bells going, I should clarify that I don’t have cancer. This blog post is the latest chapter in a program we’ve been developing at Climbers […]
Back to Trad – Banzai Pipeline and First Steps on the Sharp End
As the “Summer of 26” continues to deliver, I’ve made a couple more baby steps in my recovery, firstly back into mountain trad (albeit in top-rope tough-guy mode) and then […]
A Dip Into The Dales
Continuing the “local, little and often recovery tour”, we headed east to spend a few days in the Yorkshire Dales. There’s plenty of accessible and amenable sports climbing which fits […]
Cumbrian Convalescence
With the van’s newly welded chassis, and me out of my plastic boot, it was time to get us both back on the road. Baby steps for both of us, […]
Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards
After four weeks, it was a huge relief to get rid of my big plastic boot and knee-crutch (I’m keeping hold of both – sorted for fancy dress options for […]
NWB (Non Weight Bearing)
If you’ve been missing your regular dose of RockAroundTheWorld, I can assure you I’ve been missing it more! Here’s what I’ve been up to (or rather haven’t been up to!) […]
Solway Saunter
Following on from Part 1 of our Galloway Glamping Getaway… Meikle Ross Heading back east, we swapped views of Northern Ireland and Kintyre for the Lakeland fells across the Solway […]
Galloway Glamping
With the weather set fair across the country it seemed like an ideal opportunity for the visit to Mull that we’d been mulling. Unfortunately, our erstwhile trusty van had other […]
Back in Blighty
Having more or less maxed out our 90 days in Shengen, our return on Easter Sunday coincided with the first flush of spring (almost summer!) Perfect timing to join the […]
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… .. […]
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