News for May 2008

Forum User Gingerkate has just published a fantastic children's book called 'Rock Climbing'. Kate had requested help and info on... [ full story ]

At UKClimbing.com we are always trying to improve the site to keep up with the latest technologies, and to offer more to our... [ full story ]

Following the success of the 2007 BLCC held at the Blackpool Towers, last weekend the planetFear British lead Climbing... [ full story ]

Update: Posing Productions Photo Gallery Here "Well I hadn't been trad climbing for a while, but I wanted to get some routes... [ full story ]

Spanish climber Iñaki Ochoa de Olza has tragically been killed on Annapurna. Climbers on various routes united in a courageous... [ full story ]

Update: Posing Productions Photo Gallery Here Dave Birkett has again proven himself to be one of the leading lights in British... [ full story ]

Sonnie Trotter is in Scotland to climb Rhapsody, E11. He's made a discovery that he says "may change the future of the... [ full story ]

On Friday 16th May, Andy Mitchell repeated Dave Birkett's Pavey Arch masterpiece Impact Day E8. Mitchell has now repeated quite... [ full story ]

Adam Ondra, the 15-year-old Czech who has already completed nine F9a or harder routes, added perhaps the first and most famous to... [ full story ]

The planetFear British Lead Climbing Championship will take place over the weekend of 24-25 May at the Blackpool Towers, one of... [ full story ]

Conditions were good at Dumbarton Rock tonight and the Canadian climber Sonnie Trotter looked solid on his lead attempt on... [ full story ]

A few hours ago today Steve McClure left Kilnsey Crag in North Yorkshire with another fine and hard redpoint to add to his... [ full story ]

Zoe Hart and Maxime Turgeon took advantage of a window of moderate weather to complete an ascent of Mt. Hunter's (14,570')... [ full story ]

Tommy Caldwell, continuing his historic Yosemite free-climbing sweep, has confirmed the first free ascent of El Capitan's Magic... [ full story ]

Victor Fernández reports in his blog that he's opened a brand new 8b+ route in Oliana called T1 - "Full Equipe": "...Right... [ full story ]

We work with a huge variety of contributors at UKC, from seasoned professionals like Chris Craggs and Nick Bullock to keen young... [ full story ]

Franceso Fazzi and Santi Padro's new route on Ama Dablam (6812m) is named Free Tibet 2065 (V+ M5+ 80 degrees, 1500m) and follows... [ full story ]

The ever active and very prolific Markus Bock has just climbed a possible new 9a in the German Frankenjura. The route is called... [ full story ]

We received a lot of positive feedback from Mike 'Twid' Turner's article ACCIDENT REPORT: Please don't tell my Mum Mike... [ full story ]

The new FRCC guide Buttermere & St Bees is now available. This is the second guidebook in the FRCC series to Lake District... [ full story ]

It is often wondered what would happen to British trad if we ever spawned a F9a climber who is willing to go for it, way above... [ full story ]

More Photo's: Day 2 on the Face The awesome East Face John Bracy reports from Alaska: Matt Helliker and I are back... [ full story ]

Provocatively named Tough Enough?, the two year old aid route slicing up the blank face of Karambony saw a free attempt by a team... [ full story ]

Most climbers carry a camera (or even a camera phone) with them these days and they know how to use them. A perusal of the... [ full story ]

Percy Bishton of the Climbing Works wall in Sheffield reports on UKBouldering: "Just returned from this years MelloBlocco... [ full story ]

Registered User JLS reports on the UKC forums: "He [Sonnie Trotter] led Requiem super smoothly in warm sunny low friction... [ full story ]

If you plan or have a desire to climb the North Face of the Eiger you can read David Gladwin's story of his and Jim Broomhead's... [ full story ]

The South Lakes strongman, John Gaskins, perhaps the most powerful climber in the UK is back climbing again after a lay off. ... [ full story ]

Dave MacLeod is digging away snow from his Echo Wall project on Ben Nevis - this is the possible E12 and the project that he... [ full story ]

Kenton Cool is leading Sir Ranulph Fiennes to the top Mount Everest. We have just received his latest despatch from Base... [ full story ]

I thought that Alastair Lee of Posing Productions had gone off our radar. Not like him. The reason? He's been busy racing all... [ full story ]

Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner summited 8,167-meter Dhaulagiri in Nepal on May 1, giving her 11 of the 14 main 8,000-meter... [ full story ]

On April 24, Swiss climbers Ueli Steck and Simon Anthamatten made the first ascent of Teng Kang Poche's (6487m) northwest face,... [ full story ]

Steve McClure has repeated Bat Route at Malham in Yorkshire. This Mark Leach route from 1989, was graded F8b+ and even though... [ full story ]

We've checked the forecast and over the weekend of June 13th - 15th climbing conditions will be perfect in the Duddon Valley... [ full story ]

Chris Savage, 26, from Bristol is having a good run on an extended climbing trip to Spain including 8b+/8c redpoints and on the... [ full story ]

The bodies of five French mountaineers killed by an avalanche in Italy's northwestern Alps have been found, rescuers say. The... [ full story ]

Last weekend saw climbers at the Manchester Climbing Centre taking on the challenge of climbing the height of the Seven Summits... [ full story ]