A new winter conditions monitoring system has been setup on the Red Tarn Face of Helvellyn, providing hourly temperature data for air and turf to help winter climbers assess likely conditions before arriving at the crag. Read more »
Scottish resident and big wall climber, Marek Raganowicz, has added two demanding aid routes to the overhanging Ship's Prow in Baffin Island. Read more »
Supported with an expedition grant from the BMC, a four-man team from the UK, travelling aboard Bob Shepton's yacht Dodo's Delight, has made a number of interesting exploratory rock climbs on the west coast of Greenland. Read more »
After last year's discovery by Australians Chris Fitzgerald and Chris Warner of an exiting area of big granite walls north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia, three teams have recently travelled to the area, hoping to add more new free routes. Read more »
A primarily British expedition comprising Greenland veterans Geoff Bonney and Jim and Sandy Gregson, together with Roger Gott, Richard Toon, and Ingrid Baber, a German currently living in Scotland, has made a raft of first ascents amongst the snowy mountains of North Liverpool Land. Read more »
A strong Swiss-Italian trio has climbed a major, big wall, free route on the Shark's Tooth in southeast Renland, while further south in the Fox Jaw Cirque a British team put up four new rock routes. Read more »
Operating from ocean-going yachts, Ben Ditto, Nico and Olivier Favresse, and Sean Villenueva on the west coast, and Harald Fichtinder and Ralph Villiger on the east, have climbed important new routes on Greenland's inshore peaks and sea cliffs. Read more »
Australians Chris Fitzgerald and Chris Warner have climbed six new routes up to 10 pitches in length on four separate granite walls in the Chukotka region of far eastern Russia. Read more »
Supported by a grant from the Alpine Club Climbing Fund (which is sponsored by First Ascent) a seven-member, primarily British expedition has recently returned from making first ascents, ski ascents, descents and traverses in a remote part of Greenland's North Liverpool Land. Read more »
Over Christmas, Andy Kirkpatrick summited a new route on Ulvetanna, a formidable 2,930m mountain in eastern Antarctica. During the ascent, Andy had to train the Norwegian team of a skier, two base jumpers, a sports and ice climber, and a camerawoman in big walling techniques. We caught up with him to find out more. Read more »
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