(by Denzil Jones, from IMC Newsletter Autumn 2004)
15 days on the "toughest of all of the Grande Randonnée routes. … Nothing can equal this route in intensity as it crosses the most majestic sites at the heart of this most versatile and highly coloured island”.
(by Rachel Cinnsealach, from IMC Newsletter Autumn 2004)
A weekend in Wales, with climbing, craic, and a serious accident.
(by Gillian Ryan, from IMC Newsletter Winter 2004)
A guided ascent of the 6185m Himalayan mountain.
(by Declan Cunningham, from IMC Newsletter Autumn 2004)
An attempt on Europe’s highest mountain.
(by Eileen Murphy, from IMC Newsletter Autumn 2004)
An attempt of the Traverse of the Cuillin Ridge of Skye.
(by Richard O’Sullivan, from IMC Newsletter Spring 2004)
Trekking in Northern Greenland.
(by Grania Willis, from IMC Newsletter Winter 2004)
Grania Willis, who became the first Irishwoman to summit the sixth highest mountain in the world at the end of September 2004, reflects on her climb of Cho Oyu in the golden jubilee year of the 8,201 metre peak’s first ascent in 1954.
(by David Craig, from IMC Newsletter, Spring 2007)
"Sitting there, with one arse cheek on a ledge, my knees wedged under my chin, and my head lolling on the wall in front of me, listening to the sea booming away in the darkness, the scary truth dawned on me… we were NEVER going to live this down!"
(by Alan Pope, from IMC Newsletter Autumn 1999)
Climbing 6000-metre peaks around La Paz.
(by John Morrison, from Coast and Mountain Walkers Journal, February 1998)
An unsuccessful attempt on Indrasan in India in 1958.