from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Peak Lenin It’s now the beginning of September and after a highly eventful and emotional past 4 weeks, I have another long overdue blog to write, whilst I try my upmost to avoid getting burnt in this scorcher of a British summer. It does seem I have been slightly unlucky with the weather, missing the ‘real’ summer this April with a long revision period, however my luck changed during late July and early August as I ventured to Kyrgyzstan, a country famous for..?! What followed was the trip of a ...
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from SAIS Southern Cairngorms
New windslab is mostly around corrie rims and gully tops, like here in the top of one of the gullies on the East side of Choire Dubh.
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from TheLowDown
A few days ago, Paul Robinson made the FA of what used to be the Rasta man vibration at the Buttermilks, Bishop. It had been a project of Paul's for years and he decided to give what is now Lucid dreaming the whopping grade of 8C+. How do you feel now afterwards? Empty or even more psyched? To tell you the truth, I feel literally exhausted. I am very psyched that I sent the line and that psyche is, I guess, what got me through the 15 hour drive home. But now that I am home, I am exhausted and have been ...
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from Straight Outta Lenslam
If I had to distill my experience in South Africa down to a single word that sums up the whole season, that word would be 'searching'. So much searching, in fact, that my legs are still sore after a week of rest. This season I was excited to search out and discover something new and cool. I wanted to find and complete a boulder problem that was not only at my limit, but had some thing about it that I had never experienced before. Whether a crazy new move or a type of feature I had never climbed... I wanted
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from Hot Aches Productions
Question: How many emergency service personnel does it take to rescue a youth from the top of one of Dumbarton's boulders? Before I tell you the answer, more about the term 'ned'. In the UK, each region seems to have it's own terminology for it's 'colourfull local youth'. In some areas they are 'Scallies', 'asbo's' seems to have caught on too. But in Scotland they are known as NEDs, short for 'Non-Educated Delinquents'. Dumbarton Rock has it's fair share of youngsters who use the venue to refine their ...
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