The Peak Area activist and Sheffield climber Julian Materna died last Saturday after a long battle with cancer. As an access rep with his wife Trudi, who also served as secretary of the Peak Area, Julian put a huge amount of effort and time into Peak District climbing. Despite his illness, he continued to climb and bike near his home and in France, which he loved. Read more »
Okay, so I was never going to be a brilliant climber, mainly VD and S outdoors (with one E0) and leading around 6a+ indoors subject to grading), I could maybe boulder V2 on a good day, but I enjoyed it and had several fun trips to Font amongst other places. Then, in October 2007, my left shoulder started to hurt. I had physiotherapy and cortisone injections, but they didn’t help and the pain got worse, so I had to lay off climbing for a while and in March I was diagnosed with bone cancer! Read more »
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