To celebrate the launch of our new Bouldering Forum, we are having a Bouldering double bill tonight.
The first film is from Adam Lincoln who has a UKC id number of 20! (that means he has been around right since the beginning). It covers his recent trip to Font with friends James Pearson, Keith Bradbury and Neil Hart.
The second film is one from the back catalogue featuring the impressively-strong Finnish climber Nalle Hukkatavial on his visit to Rocklands in South...]]>
This is the fifth of our regular series of Scottish winter conditions updates from Dan Goodwin of MountainPlan.com.
Dan gives a round up of what has been climbed, where good venues for the weekend might be and also some very important links to avalanche and weather information. There are also reports from Mike Peascod and Mike Lates.]]>
January 2010 has been a record month for UKClimbing.com and to celebrate, we are setting up a new Bouldering Forum.]]>
In April 2010 Plas y Brenin are set to host the first ever UKClimbing.com Alpine Festival. This great weekend event is a unique opportunity for UKC users to learn from some of the Country's leading Alpinists and Mountain Guides and to mix with like-minded people and celebrate Alpine achievements and aspirations. ]]>
Dave Birkett, Andy Mitchell and Mary Jenner climbed a once-in-a-lifetime winter route last weekend on Scafell's East Buttress. Birkett has an almost religious relationship with this hallowed crag and this new winter route, he told us, was one of his most intense mental and physical climbing experiences ever. Read Dave's account and see photos by Ed Luke and Al Phizacklea in this UKClimbing.com exclusive.]]>
Access to climbing in Yosemite is threatened by some complex legislation involving developments for managing the Merced River. The plans involve reducing traffic, restoring developed land, improving campgrounds and other facilities, and creating a user capacity program. All of this sounds positive but one upshot appears to point to significantly restricted access to many of the major climbing crags.]]>
Adam Ondra's brilliance shows no sign of slowing down as he enters the later years of adolescence, reports karin.com. ]]>
Using the internet Will Gadd has been peering into his computer screen looking for an ice version of Klondike for the last decade, and he found it at Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia. Teaming up with Brit Tim Emmett, they climbed some of the steepest ice ever.]]>
Biographie, a F8c+ route at Ceuse that was extended by Chris Sharma to give an overall grade of F9a+, is one of the most beautiful extreme sport routes in the world.
Sharma named his extension Realisation.
Here French climber Sylvain Millet climbs the extended version at F9a+:
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The BMC starts 2010 with record membership, having reached over 70,000 in December. Dave Turnbull, BMC CEO says.....]]>
This is the fourth of our regular series of Scottish winter conditions updates from Dan Goodwin of MountainPlan.com.
Dan gives a round up of what has been climbed, where good venues for the weekend might be and also some very important links to avalanche and weather information. There are also reports from Mike Peascod and Mike Lates.]]>
The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival will be held over the 12th to 14th March: www.shaff.co.uk. Alastair Lee has done a great trailer for ShAFF featuring some of the films being shown. Watch the trailer here...and some news of the Ron Fawcett book.]]>
Wainwright's meticulously handwritten walking guides (around 50 in all), published between 1955 and 1966, have sold nearly two million copies worldwide. Cumbria Archives Service has been given the opportunity to purchase the Alfred Wainwright Papers, including correspondence, memoirs, original drawings, lithographs, slides and photographs.
This would allow the papers to remain in Cumbria and be accessible for research but they need the support of the public.]]>
Back in August 2009 we launched out UKClimbing Facebook page.
We now have 1967 fans. Can we push it past 2000?
We have also developed a clever little Facebook Application called Climbing...]]>
Fumitaka Ichimura and Genki Narumi, part of a group of young Japanese alpinists who refer to themselves as the Giri-Giri Boys, have climbed the North Face of Tawoche (6,495m)...]]>