UKClimbing.com

UKClimbing.com is one of the World's busiest climbing and mountaineering web sites. Our aim is to maintain this status by bringing you both the best of climbing and the best experience that Web technology can provide. We promise that:

We won't dilute our content.
We won't waste your time with flashy technology that isn't compatible with your computer.
We will give you the most up-to-date and most comprehensive information that we can, about everything to do with climbing and mountaineering from around the World.
We will continue to develop the site using the latest web technology.

We'd like to ask one thing from you in return:

Your participation - give us your opinions; take part in the discussions; submit your articles, photos and news items; use your logbook - because the more you take part, the more valuable this site will be to you and to everyone else. If you want to participate right now, then Contact Us, or go and start looking around.

The UKC Team

UKC was created in 1995 by Andy Hyslop and Adam Greenwood and existed as a sub domain of various other sites until it became a fully fledged limited company under the UKClimbing.com domain in 2001. The current site is maintained by a number of people.

Alan James - Director
Alan climbed his first route in June 1971 when just 7 years old. Subsequent trips in the Peak and North Wales with his father through the 1970s planted the seed but it was only in the early 1980s that this grew into a full obsession. Since then he has climbed all over Europe and the UK and even toyed with Alpine climbing in the late 80s. An impressive debut solo of the Frendo Spur proved to be a false dawn and in 1989 he hung up his crampons after a perilous ascent of the NNE Spur of the Cortes. He then concentrated on high standard trad and sport climbing. A handful of un-noteworthy new routes on Peak Limestone followed before he turned his hand to producing cartoons for OTE. This led him to a meeting with Mick Ryan and his first venture into guidebook work by authoring the Peak Limestone Rockfax of 1992. After Mick Ryan's departure to the States in 1994 Alan took over the fledgling Rockfax company and turned it into the most innovative guidebook company in the UK. The Rockfax web site was set up in 1998 which included a small discussion forum called Rocktalk. Combining this forum with Andy's Hyslop's UKClimbing site led to the UKClimbing.com as it is today. In June 2008, Alan became the sole owner of UKClimbing.com.
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Mick Ryan - Advertising Manager
Mick started climbing in 1978 when in sixth form at St. Mary's College Blackburn (Lancashire, England). He enjoys all types of climbing and climbers and has climbed all over the UK, Europe and the USA. Highlights include doing the Old Man of Hoy and Devil's Tower in Wyoming. Mick was a co-founder of Rockfax guidebooks in the early 1990s before moving to Bishop, California enjoying the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and the boulders in the Owens Valley. After 12 years in the States he moved back to the UK in 2006 to become the full-time editor at UKClimbing.com. Mick's role grew over the next year and in 2008 Mick become the dedicated Advertising Manager at UKC.
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Jack Geldard - Chief Editor
Jack started climbing in Yorkshire at the age of 12 - using a Whillans harness and a stolen washing line. As luck would have it, the science teacher at his school was a well known climber (Mick Ryan) and a source of inspiration (exasperation?!) that firmly planted the climbing bug. Since then it has been a whirlwind of mountain-based adventures all over the globe, including first ascents on several of the World's larger rock walls and a few of Wales' smaller outcrops. His real passion is trad climbing, but he has also been known to clip the odd bolt and fall off a few boulder problems. He is a qualified Mountaineering Instructor and resides near Llanberis, North Wales. He joined UKClimbing.com in 2007 as Assistant Editor and graduated to Chief Editor in 2008.
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Nick Smith - Chief Scientist
Originally from Cambridge, Nick moved up to Sheffield in 1999 to pursue his climbing ambitions. When not running the web-design company, Climbers.net, he can be found training at the local Sheffield walls or out on the grit (if the weather is nice!). Nick looks after the technical side of the site, writing the PHP scripts that interface to our MySQL database engine.
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Tom Briggs and Jonathan Lagoe both help with the forum moderation. In addition there are others who moderate the photos database and who write articles. We are always keen for new input so please Contact Us if you wish to get involved.