Wadi Rum and Black Magic
Wadi Rum, in Jordan, has been on my bucket list for almost three decades. Initial awareness and inspiration were prompted by an ad hoc slideshow from the Tony Howard, the […]
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Kotor cragging
With a four-day monsoon forecast to hit Montenegro we had the option of spending the remaining dry day at Bar or moving on for some further exploration. We opted to […]
Stari Bar and some Montenegro Seaside Climbing
Stari Bar old town sits proudly on a hill top, about 3km inland from the coast and the upstart seaside resort of Bar. No doubt a tourist hot-spot during the […]
Smokovac, Podgorica
The Morača Canyon winds its way northwards out of Montenegro’s capital city, Podgorica, slicing its way through the limestone geology to reveal mile upon mile of climbing potential. Development began […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… .. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Palermo
I’ve never played any of those “Civilisation” style games, where you choose somewhere to found a settlement and then try to grow a metropolis. However, you can see what attracted […]
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