What with it being the hottest, driest spring since records began, you’re probably all wondering where you can go to escape the heat. So cast your eyes upwards and see the wild moorland of the Peak District shimmering in the sort of heat-haze more commonly seen in the Sahara. Kinder beckons, chinny reckon. Read more »
Our man Niall Grimes was at Kendal Film Festival this year - taking on big stars of the climbing world in front of the camera. Read more »
The rarefied world of mountaineering is sagging at the taped seams with endless biographies and autobiographies of snow-plodders and axemen, listing frostbitten digits, broken stoves and death bivouacs like there’s no tomorrow. Yet what about climbing, that thing that 90% of us do, 99% of the time? Where are the stories, legends and characters that make it what it is? Where is the book that captures that amazing joy of moving up rock? Read more »
Big Lars the German raved about it loudly. Paul immediately dispatched himself around the corner to do it too. Not long later he bounded back: “Wow, you’re right it’s brilliant. You have to go and do it, it’s really easy.” Read more »
The art of social climbing by Niall Grimes. Read more »
With the recent round of appointments finished, there are some major changes in the BMC / MSL staffing structure. Read more »
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