Within this month's Crag Notes Nina Clouston does a double take at St Bees: initially as a non-climber with an interest in birds, then as a climber with an interest in rock. Overlapping worlds that coexist wtihin the same space, but without realising that the other is there. Between these two spaces lie memories of the past and plans for the future, whilst the author spends time in the moment.
This was a lovely article, it really captured that special connection we all make with certain crags. Thank you for sharing, St Bees is a place I'd love to visit, all the more so now.
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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