News for September 2008

David Simmonite Reports on the Climb Magazine website: "In an audacious and serious piece of climbing James Pearson has ... [ full story ]

Dave MacLeod and Malcolm Smith have climbed a pair of desperate boulder problems. MacLeod in Glen Nevis and Smith at... [ full story ]

21 year old Remy Bergasse of Romans in France has completed the first ascent of Quoi De Neuf in Le Toit d'Orsay, Fontainebleau... [ full story ]

Earlier this month we received a press release from a Trango expedition in which they informed us, amongst other things, of their... [ full story ]

Autumn is upon us and from the first day of October all the crags in Cheddar Gorge are open. The high number tourists mean... [ full story ]

The BMC Leading Ladder is back this year with a whole new format to get even more of you climbers enthused about competing in... [ full story ]

18 year old Cumbrian-based climber Will Sim and UKClimbing.com's gear reviewer Jon Griffith climbed a new route on the Grand... [ full story ]

In January 2007 we published an article - Epic on the Badile - originally written by Mike James (my father) back in the 1960s.... [ full story ]

Britain's Tyler Landman has completed the second ascent of Chris Sharma's, Practice Of The Wild in Magic Wood,... [ full story ]

It's no fair. Why do those Peakies get all the good lectures? And all at once, like three double-decker... [ full story ]

The Japanese climber Akito Matsushima who is currently placed 9th in the IFSC bouldering world ranking, has made the  fourth... [ full story ]

A report on SuperTopo states that Chris Sharma has onsighted two impressive F8c routes this week. "So, this past week Chris... [ full story ]

On September 13th Matt Triolett organised a crag clean up at Widdop (in Lancashire) and at the same time opened up some neglected... [ full story ]

Our Chamonix resident photographer and gear reviewer is enthusiastic and always on the go. With Gavin Pike and Will Sim, Jon... [ full story ]

From The Independent Website: Walkers in Snowdonia have converted a hill into a mountain after taking their own measurements... [ full story ]

Routes: Adam Ondra has of course been busy recently, with repeats of two hard routes in the Frankenjura: Planets Collide (F8c+)... [ full story ]

Strawberries (E6 6b) is a fierce crack-line taking the challenge of the overhanging headwall at the top of the Vector Buttress on... [ full story ]

As climbing becomes more commercial, the climbers grabbing headlines are often those with the most active PR agents. On the... [ full story ]

Long range forecast looks good this winter, if you trust such things. There's even a 25% chance of a white Christmas for northern... [ full story ]

Climb Rochdale are looking for a Full Time Climbing Centre Assistant and Part-time Instructors. Full details : Premier Post -... [ full story ]

It's coming up to that time of year again – Kendal Mountain Festival is looming on the horizon. Come the 20th of November and... [ full story ]

On 16th September Paul Smitton made the second ascent of Steve McClure's F8c+ route, Kaabah at Raven Tor in the Peak District. 23... [ full story ]

Dan Middleton, the BMC's Technical Officer reports: A recent BMC technical report investigated an incident, where a Rock... [ full story ]

Spain's Daniel Andrada has completed another "boulder route" in the Alibaba Cave at Rodellar, Spain. Delincuente natural has a... [ full story ]

Seán Villanueva O'Driscoll and Nico Favresse have been busy over on the other side of the pond. After a trip to Squamish, during... [ full story ]

Chris Sharma has given his recently completed mega-project at Clark Mountain (California) the name Jumbo Love with a proposed... [ full story ]

George Smith's forthcoming film Upside Down Wales is to feature a full 48 minute interview with living legend Joe Brown. Ray... [ full story ]

Chris Sharma - World's Hardest Route? From the Big Up Blog: "The project was first scoped by Clark's main developer, Randy... [ full story ]

The famous Wilton quarries in Lancashire are to be sold at public auction by their owners, United Utilities. The quarries were... [ full story ]

A year round ban looms on some of Spain's finest Crags. The Medi Ambient (Environment Agency) of Lleida has recently published... [ full story ]

Alex Honnold has continued his run of form with a solo ascent of Half Dome's Regular Northwest Face route on September 6th. The... [ full story ]

Czech climber Ondra Benes has completed a rare redpoint of The End of Silence (F8b+ 11 pitches), the Thomas Huber route in... [ full story ]

Spain's man of the moment Patxi Usobiaga and Austria's Johanna Ernst, have taken the top honours at this year's Rockmaster... [ full story ]

The Birmingham based climber Richard Simpson has recently redpointed the route Burn 4 U (F8c), in Germany's Frankenjura. He... [ full story ]

The Alps, Peru, Stanage, Castle Hill and Pembroke all feature in last weeks top ten photos at UKClimbing.com. Simply stunning, I... [ full story ]

Katy Whittaker is currently on a European road trip. Climbing well, she has managed to redpoint Hurrikan F7c+/8a at Klagemauer, ... [ full story ]

Let's start with some statistics: the UKC Logbook database has 94,400 routes on 8,500 crags across the World. The 5,400 users who... [ full story ]

"Zillertal is such a beautiful area. Probably one of the few places in Europe that has amazing bouldering, sports and alpine... [ full story ]

Stephan Siegrist and Ueli Steck have free climbed Paciencia (900m F8a) on the north face of the Eiger. "Finally we made it! Five... [ full story ]

'Are you creative?', we asked and 53 climbers responded with a resounding yes. The brief was to design FOUR graphic adverts for... [ full story ]

'C3PO' reports on UKBouldering that British climber Ryan Pasquill has succeeded on Bah Bah Black Sheep (F8c/+) at Ceuse,... [ full story ]

The 21st International Festival of Mountaineering Literature is to be held at the Shakespeare Centre in Kendal as part of the... [ full story ]

"Free soloing is too forbidding for it to ever become popular. It is an activity for those with a precise knowledge of their own... [ full story ]

Available now on the Patagonia Website is a new feature - The Tin Shed. Patagonia was founded by Yvon Chouinard, who made his... [ full story ]

UKClimbing.com and Heason Events are pleased to be able to offer a pair of tickets to the world premičre of On Sight, Alastair... [ full story ]

Nic Sellers gives an account of his recent head-point repeat of Ben Bransby's Chupacabra at Pembroke on the DMM Website.... [ full story ]

Diego Giovannini and Franco 'Franzo' Nicolini have recently completed the first non-mechanized link up of all 82 Alpine 4,000m... [ full story ]

According to the website 8a.nu, the thirteen year old French climber, Geoffrey De Flaugergues has just completed his second F8c+.... [ full story ]

Dejan Miskovic, the Slovenian climber trapped on Muztagh Tower (7284m), Karakoram, Pakistan, has been rescued by Tomaz Humar and... [ full story ]