Best of 2022
I had a bumper year of adventures in 2022, which goes some way to explaining the lack of “content” recently. Here are a few snaps from the best of them. I’ll get around to...
Articles Writing and Audio
A Grand Day Out
This piece was published in Climber Magazine in 2016. We talk about a golden age of climbing as something passed. The big first ascents, standards being defined, precedents set and a nostalgia for an...
Looking for the Key
Published in Climber Magazine September 2017 I first heard of Sardine and Raven Tor when I was a teenager working in a gear shop. It was a cushy job. Once the floor was hoovered...
Brit Rock Film Tour 2021
A few months back I had a message out of the blue from Alastair Lee. Through his company Posing Productions he’s responsible for the Brit Rock Film Tour, showcasing his fantastic cinematic films. This...
Birth Pains of New Nations – Pete Oxley
The whims and motivations of climbers really are another world to the person in the street. Understanding them is crossing a threshold, it requires a certain suspension of disbelief to start to see the...
5 Talking Points from Sport Climbing at the Olympics – Qualifiers
I’ve really enjoyed watching the qualifying events for the Sport Climbing at the Olympics. It’s thrown up a few things, and the finals are going to be interesting. You can watch them on Eurosport...
Treasured Books
This week I had a chat with Climbing on the Bookshelf about some of my favourite climbing books. These included Hard Rock and the awesome Let’s Go Climbing, by Colin Kirkus.
Adventures on Skye
The past year has been a strange one for adventure. Like most of us, I haven’t left the country which has curtailed some plans for bigger walls and mountains, but also relieved a little...
Hateja – Glenda Huxter and Louise Thomas
If you had to select your late 90s dream team for a British, all-female Himalayan big wall trip, you couldn’t go far wrong with this one. Glenda Huxter was onsighting E7, Kath Pyke had...
Why climb? Here’s a great answer
I get to interview a lot of people about their climbing adventures. One thing I never ask them directly is why they do it. That just seems like such a basic question. George Mallory...