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!
Tag: Feature
The Stuff of Legends
The Selkie Selkie’s are a mythical creature from Irish folklore similar to mermaids, they are seals in the water, and on land remove their skin […]
Patricia Flynn – An Appreciation
by Jill Rowe Patricia Flynn, who died suddenly at her Dublin home one August afternoon in 2019, was one of the great Irish mountain women […]
COVID-19 Update September-2020
We are in the middle of all this pandemic. Let’s be clear and certain about one thing – COVID is killing people. The status in […]
Motivation for isolated training
Staying motivated training at home or alone – some ways to help to stick with it!
DAVID AND HIS GOLIATHS
Dave Keogh recounts a dizzying schedule of famous routes and high mountain encounters by Harry McGee When the recession hit construction in Ireland in 2009, […]
IMC HUT CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
PLEASE NOT THAT DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, THE IMC HUT WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. NO FURTHER BOOKINGS ARE BEING TAKEN AT THIS […]
More Than Just a Number: Getting into E1
By David Craig Transitioning from HVS to E1 is often a problem, not just because of the increase in difficulty but because of the mental […]
Early memories of the Irish Mountaineering Club
by Robert Norton “The Past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, L.P. Hartley Given the rate of social and technological change […]
15-17 Nov: Members’ Weekend
We’re trying something new this year: kicking the AGM out of the city and into the mountains as part of a “Members’ Weekend”! There’ll be […]