climbing adventures in Scotland and abroad
Paklenica is a national park on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, famous for huge karstic limestone cliffs and sparsely-bolted, sandbagged routes. The climbing here, especially on the multi-pitches, is more akin to adventurous alpine rock climbing than sport climbing. In … Read More »
It’s always nice to prolong the summer with a last gasp of warm sun and dry rock before the winter really gets going in Scotland. This time the chosen venue was the sport climbing paradise of El Chorro, in the … Read More »
A very recent addition to the Misty Mountain Hop family meant an objectively hazardous alpine climbing trip wasn’t on the cards this year. Instead, some chilled bolt-clipping was in order – and that is exactly what we didn’t get in … Read More »
“At lizt twenty-foer heurs” the clerk informed me at the lost baggage desk. Merde! Stunning weather and no climbing gear for our first day in Chamonix then! Combined with a flooded apartment and our transposal to a bedsit, this was not a … Read More »
Watching the weather during the months leading up to our trip to the Mont Blanc massif, one could be forgiven for despairing – continued reports of cold, wet, stormy weather didn’t inspire confidence that we would achieve much. Accounts from … Read More »