In February 2023, Steph McKenna won the Fort William Mountain Festival's "Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture" - an experience made all the more surprising because she had no idea she'd be nominated. But look into why she won, says Dan Aspel, and it's hardly a surprise at all.
This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...
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