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Last updated on 01/Jun/2012

Overview

A great community of student climbers and mountaineers who regularly climb all over Gower, South Wales and much further afield. All abilities are welcome.

SUMC is a mountaineering club for students of Swansea University. The club has an average membership of some 120 students each year, and is one of the largest sports clubs at the university.

One of our main aims is to help introduce people to climbing, then continue to support them while they improve in the hope that they'll stay actively involved and join the great community within the club. We're not just aimed at beginners though; there are plenty of experienced members too, so if you've climbed before - whatever level - there's bound to be someone of similar experience to climb with.

We climb twice weekly indoors but also a lot on Gower (where you can find great trad of all levels), some parts of which are only a fifteen-minute drive from the university campus. There's also plenty of sport climbing in the area, with lots of old quarries scattered around South Wales. We regularly arrange trips around the UK to places such as North Wales, and the Peak District, and we aim to hold a week-long trip in the Easter and Summer holidays (which have recently taken us to climbing locations such as the Lake District, Cornwall and Spain).

The club isn't just about recreational climbing - we have a thriving competitive side, with a history of fantastic results in competitions from regional to national level. On a national level, the club sends its bouldering teams to the annual BUCS/BUSA competitions, and has come consistently amongst the highest ranking Universities for several years.

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