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 LlÅ·n Liaisons (not so Dangerous!)
The LlÅ·n 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 […]
Tuscany
The final stop on our Italian Job was Tuscany. Whilst we’d been bathing in largely unbroken sunshine in Sicily and southern Italy (ironically, as had much of Britain!) the north […]
Le Marche
The Le Marche region sits north of Abruzzo, with Ancona as its capital and best known city. The guidebook features over 60 crags, but we were only able to climb […]
Abruzzo – Apennine Arrampicata
Central Italy is a bit like northern Scotland (and no, I’m not talking about food, weather or personality traits!) It’s only a couple of hours from West to East and […]
Campania Climbing and a Stunning Sea Cliff
After our serendipitous Calabrian encounter we headed north into Campania, the region that contains Naples, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast as some of its more renowned landmarks. For those who […]
Calabria Climbing and Serendipity
Heading north from Sicily, in the vague direction of Salerno (the next region with any significant climbing) we needed a stopover to break the journey. Helen is a campsite-finding genius, […]
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