A hair-raising traverse of the Auguille du Chardonnet and Forbes Arête (AD) by Dermot Shiels Last summer Declan Murray and I mustered up enough brownie […]
Plenty of Bottle needed for this Chardonnet!
Category: Trip Report: International
Climbing in the Lofoten Islands and Stetind or Lofoten’s Lavish Lavatories (a guide to Arctic Norway’s finest outhouses)
Lofoten, just above the Arctic circle in Norway, is a rock climbers paradise. Four of us (Dave K., Anni H., Sile and myself) spent most […]
An epic traverse of the iconic Matterhorn.
by Roger McMorrow Matterhorn: Lion-Hornli Traverse (Lion: AD+ III+ 650m, Hornli: AD III 1,220m) There are few ridges in the world that are as strikingly […]
With George in the Alps
by Michael Lunt An extraordinary account of the Alpine adventures of two friends over three seasons sixty years ago… and their chance encounter with four […]
An Exhilarating Ascent of the Kuffner Arête on Mont Maudit
The Kuffner Arête is one of the most aesthetic and airy routes in the Alps and is seen as the best route on Mont Maudit […]
Peaky Blinders – The Peak District Meet 2018
The Peak District has some breath-taking countryside as well as some of the best climbing in Europe. Among its legendary climbing venues are Stanage Edge, […]
Top of the Lakes – The Lake District Meet
by David Craig The annual meet to the Lakes has long been one of the highlights of the club’s calendar of meets, especially since the […]
Climbing in the Arctic Circle
by Aidan Roe, Photos by Dermot Shiels (Climbers Aidan Roe, David Madden, Niall Hedderman and Dermot Shiels) Senja, Norway is an extraordinary winter ice, and […]
Steep and Meaningful at El Chorro
Spanish radio is great. I don’t understand a word but when the news comes on, it always sounds like they are announcing a revolution in […]
GR20 Trip Report – Sept 2016
Introduction The GR20 (Grande Randonnée 20) is one of the large network of waymarked walking trails found throughout France, especially in mountain areas. The route […]