| Lyon Equipment Banner Competition: Keith Llewellyn May-08 |
![[400 x 600 Petzl advert, 3 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/85668.jpg "[400 x 600 Petzl advert, 3 kb]") The brief is to design four banner adverts for climbing products from La Sportiva, Beal and Petzl using images from their websites and you can incorporate some of your own images. This entry is by Keith Llewellyn |
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| Lyon Equipment Banner Competition: Alex Pollitt Apr-08 |
![[Petzl Vasak, 3 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/85695.jpg "[Petzl Vasak, 3 kb]") The brief is to design four banner adverts for climbing products from La Sportiva, Beal and Petzl using images from their websites and you can incorporate some of your own images. This entry is by Alex Pollitt. |
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| Learning How to Learn.... to Fall Apr-08 |
![[There are consequences, 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/85742.jpg "[There are consequences, 2 kb]") Most climbers avoid the learning process by looking for tricks or techniques to get around the stress and fear inherent in learning. You must go through the stress in order to learn. Here's how...to learn how to fall! |
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| How To Get Free Kit Mar-08 |
![[Not long now. Keep pushing., 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/81674.jpg "[Not long now. Keep pushing., 2 kb]") Andy Kirkpatrick, gear reviewer extraordinaire shares his wisdom: "A young climber came up and asked if I could give him some advice. He told me he was planning on soloing the Eiger, and wanted to know if I had any ideas about getting some sponsorship for the climb. All I could say was “Well if you're going to solo the Eiger what gear would you need?” ...it was obviously some ploy to prise some gear out of a climbing company, and no doubt he'd die." |
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| Lyon Equipment Banner Competition: Saeed Hasheminezhad May-08 |
![[Lyon Equipment Banner Competition-Hasheminezhad #2, 1 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/85733.jpg "[Lyon Equipment Banner Competition-Hasheminezhad #2, 1 kb]") The brief is to design four banner adverts for climbing products from La Sportiva, Beal and Petzl using images from their websites and you can incorporate some of your own images. This entry is by Saeed Hasheminezhad from Iran. |
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| ACCIDENT REPORT: Please don’t tell my Mum May-08 |
![[Smith's Route, Ben Nevis: picture shows the leader at the point from where the second hit the ground 60m down, 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/86160.jpg "[Smith's Route, Ben Nevis: picture shows the leader at the point from where the second hit the ground 60m down, 2 kb]") During a brief visit to Ben Nevis in early April I was
involved in an incident while climbing Smiths Route.
The accident I was involved with highlighted a few
issues about winter climbing that other climbers might
find beneficial. This short article is not meant as a
'whipping stick' for the unfortunate climbers that I
had to help rescue. Hopefully no offence is meant in
mentioning their misfortune but good lessons can be
learned for all. |
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| I Want That Job! - Lucy Ham - Sales and Marketing: prAna May-08 |
![[Lucy Ham on Haste Not VS, White Ghyll, Langdale, Cumbria, 4 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/86002.jpg "[Lucy Ham on Haste Not VS, White Ghyll, Langdale, Cumbria, 4 kb]") In this article series I Want That Job! I'll be interviewing people from various professions within the climbing world. It's the turn of Lucy Ham who works for Beyond Hope the UK distributors of prAna, Metolius and Evolv. Lucy used to work for the North Face but has now graduated to working for prAna when she's not running. climbing, cycling or ski touring. Lucy's philosophy is to "go for it". |
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| BMC Leading Ladder - Meet the Winners Apr-08 |
![[Shauna Coxsey, 3 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/83900.jpg "[Shauna Coxsey, 3 kb]") On the 29th March 2008, 32 competitors battled it out to be the winners of the BMC Leading Ladder. Meet the champions in our interview article - with photo's. |
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| Catalunya — Winter 07/08 Apr-08 |
![[Chris Sharma giving all during an attempt on his Santa Linya project Nehandertal (9b?)., 3 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/82143.jpg "[Chris Sharma giving all during an attempt on his Santa Linya project Nehandertal (9b?)., 3 kb]") Catalunya is rarely out of the news. The exceptional winter of 07/08 (the driest here for 60 years) has seen unprecedented levels of activity, with a bevy of the world’s top climbers almost queuing up to repeat the hardest routes.
Pete O’Donovan documents the activities of Dani Andrada, Edu Marin, Ramon Julian, Patxi Usobiaga, Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra in the steep cave of Santa Linya, |
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| Alpine Introduction - By Rich Cross BMG Mar-08 |
![[The rewards of an Alpine bivvy, 1 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/83780.jpg "[The rewards of an Alpine bivvy, 1 kb]") Rich Cross takes us through the basics of Alpinism. Going Up, Getting back down! Crossing crevasses and snow slopes, avoiding avalanches and acclimatising properly. This intro article covers all bases. |
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| Lyon Equipment Banner Competition: Simons May-08 |
![[Lyon Equipment Banner Competition Simons #4, 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/85853.jpg "[Lyon Equipment Banner Competition Simons #4, 2 kb]") The brief is to design four banner adverts for climbing products from La Sportiva, Beal and Petzl using images from their websites and you can incorporate some of your own images. This entry is by Ross Simons. |
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| I want that Job! - Martin Kocsis - Volunteers' Officer at the B Apr-08 |
![[Martin Kocsis, Ellie Fowler and Carissa Lough at the Lakes Area Meeting (Oct 2007), 4 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/74495.jpg "[Martin Kocsis, Ellie Fowler and Carissa Lough at the Lakes Area Meeting (Oct 2007), 4 kb]") In this new article series I Want That Job! I'll be interviewing people from various professions within the climbing world. It's the turn of Forum User and BMC's Volunteers' Officer Martin Kocsis to persuade us all why we want his job. Martin 'escaped' from teaching to take this post and now spearheads the BMC's regional revival which plays to Martin's strengths, in his words, "I get my best results when working with people. I'm not academic in any way and I enjoy neither theory nor pen pushing." |
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| Pat Littlejohn - What has Climbing done for you? Mar-08 |
![[Pat Littlejohn, 5 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/76839.gif "[Pat Littlejohn, 5 kb]") I suspect it doesn't come naturally for climbers to step back and look objectively at the part climbing plays in their lives. I certainly never gave it much thought, but recently something came up at the BMC which made me and others try to evaluate the 'worth' of climbing, both to ourselves and to wider society... Pat Littlejohn looks at the value of climbing. |
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| A Golden Week on the Ben Mar-08 |
![[Steve on Smith's Route, 1 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/82199.jpg "[Steve on Smith's Route, 1 kb]") Sometimes it happens. A route, a day, or a whole trip that makes it all worthwhile. A reward for weekend after weekend of trudging through loose powder, repeated failure, motivational crises, hot-aches, standing at belays being gradually buried in spindrift, agonising over weather forecasts, and all the usual pleasures associated with Scottish winter climbing. This was one such experience. Andy Ruck (AKA Plummet) has a perfect week on Ben Nevis. |
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| New content at UKClimbing.com last month: April 2008 May-08 |
| A summary of all the latest content on UKClimbing.com from the past month, including: 8 new articles, 8 product announcements and 2 independent gear reviews from the UKC testers. |
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| I Want That Job! - Sam Whittaker - Climbing Wall Owner Apr-08 |
![[Sam Whittaker making the first ascent of Appointment with Death, Wimberry, 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/36852.jpg "[Sam Whittaker making the first ascent of Appointment with Death, Wimberry, 2 kb]") In this new article series I Want That Job! I'll be interviewing people from various professions within the climbing world. It's the turn of Sam Whittaker, climber and climbing wall owner. When asked: Why is it great being a climbing wall owner, and why is it rubbish? Sam replied, " It's just all great – there are no 'rubbish' parts to the job." Could this be the dream climbing job? |
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| Lyon Equipment: Sportiva/Beal/Petzl Design A Banner Competition Apr-08 |
![[The Prizes, 3 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/84853.jpg "[The Prizes, 3 kb]") Big prizes again in this UKClimbing.com hosted competition, Lyon Equipment have a challenge for you. Design some graphic adverts, or in plain speak, banners, for La Sportiva, Petzl and Beal and you could win shed loads of gear from those three companies. Everyone who enters gets a prize but more than that you could get some freelance design work from some of the UK's outdoor equipment companies, maybe even manage their internet marketing plans. So get your creative cap on and start designing. |
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| Proud to be a Bumbly Mar-08 |
![[Tip 3 - Pull on anything!, 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/83110.jpg "[Tip 3 - Pull on anything!, 2 kb]") David Hume (AKA Full Stottie) takes us on a few historical adventures and realises on the way that perhaps he is a bumbly after all. And actually he quite likes it... |
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| I Want That Job! - Jim Nichols, Director, Entre-Prises Mar-08 |
![[Jim Nichols - Company Man, 2 kb]](http://img.ukclimbing.com/t/83128.jpg "[Jim Nichols - Company Man, 2 kb]") In this new article series I Want That Job! I'll be interviewing people from various professions within the climbing world. It's the turn of Jim Nichols, Operations Director at Entre-Prises Climbing Walls. Designing and building state of the art climbing walls has got to be great fun, right? |
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