The Diamond and The Black – Lockdown slideshow
With slightly spooky foresight I managed to launch Season 2 of The Rucksack Club’s Lockdown Slideshows to coincide with the beginning of Lockdown 3 in the UK. Something tells me […]
With slightly spooky foresight I managed to launch Season 2 of The Rucksack Club’s Lockdown Slideshows to coincide with the beginning of Lockdown 3 in the UK. Something tells me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We first coined the phrase “RockAroundTheWorld” in 2004 when Helen and I took the tumultuous decision to have a “grownup gap-year”, take the kids (aged 8 and 10) out of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’d pretty much wrung the last drops from the climbing available in Portugal, which coincided perfectly with the first day of dodgy weather in ages. Time to head East! We […]
Flicking through the Portugal Climbing guide, packed with great photos, the shots of Escusa still stand out – I’ve rarely seen such a striking wall of ribboned flowstone, and as […]
Heading north from Sesimbra we stopped off at Nazaré to check out the surf scene – the world’s “biggest” waves, apparently and we were treated to 60 footers, and stumbled […]
The first dodgy forecast in ages saw us set out on a reconnaissance of Pedreiras, an Arrabida crag that didn’t make it into the Portugal guide. We found it on […]
We had a couple of trips to the crags at Azoia on our 2018 visit (see these links for approach and route beta) https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/02/05/azoia-arrabida-natural-park/ https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/02/08/azoia-cova-mijona-poema-rocha/ … so were in Groundhog […]