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UKC Weekly Newsletter for 13th March Search:
In late February, Mark R was soloing Parsley Fern Lefthand Gully when he was knocked off by a chunk of falling ice. The result was a terrifying slide down the gully – all captured by his helmet-cam.

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Feature: A Weekend in Wales - 1970
An account of an ascent of Main Wall on Cyrn Las over two days in 1970.

"A big gust of wind abates and carefully, ever so carefully I effect a delicate weight transfer and reach a hold, incut this time for a foot. Rest. Turn round and grin away the tension; on with a runner and into the chimney. The deluge makes looking up painful; sharp, vertical cracks make pulling up painful..."

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Photo of the Week
which way? - the wand , 72 kb
"which way? - the wand " © mac fae stirling
Primus Eta, 54 kb

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The most popular Climbing Forums in the world, with 8,900 new messages last week. Talk about the routes you're going to do, ethical debates, foreign trips, winter routes and conditions or expeditions. Some of the busiest of the 1100+ topics this week included:
*  Climbing quiz
*  UKC Fit Club week 312
*  Dry Tooling at Blantyre Towers
*  Quick bike rant
*  Why would anyone wear a headcam?
*  Ice axe arrest
*  Hanging onto the back of a group in a sportive
*  Top 10 Multi-pitch E1's in the UK
*  Grades in the Thirties.
*  Lakes Conditions
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Photos
The Peak all to ourselves, 3 kb
Gallery of the Week
Our Photo Gallery contains a unique collection of over 157,200 images from UKClimbing users, with 229 new photos added this week.

As a registered user you can upload your photos into your personal gallery, as well as voting on any photo on the site. This week we had 2,115 votes, and the top voter was Mark Collins.

Congratulations to NJBrown, our Gallery of the Week as voted by UKC users.

Events Diary
All the dates you need in our Events Diary for Competitions, lectures and even club meets:
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