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 »
The BMC would like to say a big thank you to British Polar explorer Fiona Thornewill MBE, who recently climbed the Nose to raise funds for the BMC's Access and Conservation Trust, and to inspire people they can do anything, if they want to enough – Fiona is a 50-year-old amateur climber and mother of two. Fiona joined Hans Florine, who holds the speed record, for his 100th ascent of the route. Read more »
Today, a British 50-year-old amateur climber and mother of two is stepping way out of her comfort zone - onto a big wall in Yosemite to share the 100th ascent of The Nose with American climbing legend Hans Florine, who holds the speed record for the route. Read more »
British polar explorers Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere have made history in completing the ill-fated journey of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s iconic Terra Nova expedition. Read more »
Grant aided by the Mount Everest Foundation, the Alpine Club, and receiving a 2013 Julie Tullis Memorial Award, a seven member AC expedition visited the Antarctic Peninsula, coming away with six first ascents. Read more »
In late January, after a year spent organising the project, Leo Houlding, Sean Leary (USA), Alastair Lee, Jason Pickles and Chris Rabone stood on the summit of Ulvetanna, having made the first ascent of the huge northeast ridge. Read more »
One of the best all round mountaineers of his generation, and undoubtedly the most famous from the flat lands of Holland, Ronald Naar, has died, aged 56, on Cho Oyu. Read more »
A seven-man expedition from the Alpine Club, organized by the experienced Antarctic traveller Phil Wickens, has picked off six first ascents on the Antarctic Peninsula, including what may have been the highest unclimbed peak on the northern mainland of the Peninsula. Read more »
British Arctic veterans Geoff Bonney, Jim and Sandy Gregson have made several fine first ascents in the little explored Paul Stern Land, East Greenland. Read more »
Supported by the BMC, the Baffin Big Walls Expedition has completed the first ascent of a previously unnamed formation close to Great Sail Peak in Baffin Island's Stewart Valley. Read more »
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