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Sunny Intervals

December 17, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Peak, UK, Wales

Lockdown 2.0

December 4, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

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 […]

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Peak, UK, Yorkshire

Beeston Tor

August 20, 2020by Dominic 7 Comments

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 […]

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Peak, UK

Limestone pick n mix

August 15, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Peak, UK, Wales

Electric Quarry, Stoney

July 26, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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Peak, UK

Virtual Gogarth Meet and Quiz

June 13, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Curbar – a John Allen homage

June 8, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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Peak, UK

Kinder Northern Edges – a different Kinda Grit

June 2, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Ashop Edge, on the north side of the Kinder plateau, is something of a connoisseurs crag. Rarely in condition, it features a number of routes that (when “in”) would warrant […]

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Peak, UK

Climbing along the Pennine Way

May 29, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Another crag conundrum – where to climb in a heatwave during the barmy busyness of a lockdown-loosened Bank Holiday / half-term week. Helen and I found two solutions at either […]

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Peak, UK, Yorkshire

Social distancing in a post-Industrial hole in the ground

May 19, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

We nipped into Harpur Hill for a bit of lockdown-loosened cragging and were amazed to find the place rammed – not with climbers (though we did bump into Chris and […]

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Peak, UK

Lockdown loosening

May 17, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

It’s hard to believe that I haven’t set hand or foot to rock since 20th March – almost 8 weeks and the longest gap in my outdoor climbing in certainly […]

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Peak, UK

Running Like a Climber – A trip back into the RockAroundTheWorld archives

April 26, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

We’re approaching 6 weeks into lockdown and the lack of climbing is starting to tell. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I briefly rekindled my running career, only to […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, Scotland, UK

Run-Around-The-House

April 4, 2020by Dominic

Two weeks into “lock-down” (in the UK that is, three weeks if you count our lock-down escapes in Spain and then France) and it’s the longest time that I haven’t […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, UK

Back in Blighty and a Birthday Blast for Jake

March 20, 2020by Dominic

I’m going to preface this blog post with a disclaimer, given the amount of vitriol that seems to be propagating on climbing fora and in the media, and also to […]

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Peak, UK

Roaches Skyline

December 30, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The penultimate day of 2019 turned out to be an absolute cracker – blue skies as far as the eye could see, and a toasty 8C. Undecided between routing and […]

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Peak, UK

Wimberry Boulders

December 28, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

You’d be hard pressed to find more different climbing experiences in December than Tenerife sports climbing and Wimberry boulders – Orange v Green; 22C v 8C; bolts v crash mat; […]

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Peak, UK

Rocking, Running and Biking Around the Peak

December 9, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Just in case you were worried by the ‘radio silence’ from Rock Around The World, here’s a quick update on the last month or so since we returned from The […]

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Peak, UK

Route to the Sky (via Hobson Moor)

November 20, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The Old Man of Hoy is arguably the most iconic piece of rock in the UK and its ascent will surely feature on the To Do lists of every climber […]

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Peak, Scotland, UK

Back in Blighty

November 10, 2019by Dominic 1 Comment

Autumn is definitely showing signs of slipping into winter now we’re home, but a quick flick through our recent bookmarks on weather apps shows how rapid the transition of seasons […]

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Peak, UK

Ilam Rock, Dovedale

August 15, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

A brief lull in the monsoon and Jake was keen to get out in The Peak. His suggestion was Ilam Rock, Dovedale, partly motivated by an Extreme Rock tick (Easter […]

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Peak, UK

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