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19/12/2011 - Climbing
Johnny Dawes and Paul Pritchard climb the Rainbow Slab A video documenting Johnny Dawes and Paul Pritchard as they climb up the Rainbow Slab in north wales.
05/10/2011 - Climbing
The Rock Bottom Line, the longest sport climb in the UK In Twll Mawr in the Dinorwig slate quarry in Wales Ian Lloyd-Jones and Sion McGuinness have established The Rock Bottom Line (130m, 7b+).
25/08/2011 - Climbing
Neil Dyer adds Megalopa 8c+ to Lower Pen Trwyn, Wales British climber Neil Dyer has added two important new sport climbs to north wales limestone, namely Megalopa F8c+ at Lower Pen Trwyn on the Great Orme and The Brute 8b at the Diamond on the nearby Little Orme.
01/08/2011 - Climbing
James McHaffie repeats The Big Bang at Lower Pen Trwyn James McHaffie has made the first repeat of The Big Bang 9a at Lower Pen Trwyn, first climbed in 1996 by Neil Carson.
08/07/2011 - Climbing
Twll Mawr: new route and The Quarryman Ian Lloyd-Jones and Sion McGuiness add Supermassive Black Hole (F7a, 75m) to Twll Mawr in the Llanberis slate quarries in Wales. Video of James MacHaffie on The Quarryman
05/07/2011 - Climbing
The Quarryman and Strawberries - important repeats in Wales Jorg Verhoeven has made the second on-sight of Strawberries E6 at Tremadog while Steve Mcclure has carried out the first one-day ascent of The Quarryman E8 in the Dinorwig slate quarries.
05/05/2011 - Climbing
Climbing at Lower Pen Trwyn, Wales Sport climbing at Lower Pen Trwyn one of the best crags in north wales
28/12/2010 - Alpinism
New winter desperate in Wales On 26/12/2010 Pete Harrison made the first ascent of the hardest winter route in Wales, Are You Having it about the Woolly Mammoths XI 10 in the Llanberis Pass.
26/12/2010 - Alpinism
Wicked Welsh winter conditions A series of new routes in north wales spearheaded by British alpinist Nick Bullock.
26/10/2010 - Climbing
Vivian Quarry, slate climbing in north wales Vivian Quarry is perhaps the most popular slate crag in Wales due to its proximity to Llanberis and the vast selection of routes of all shapes and sizes.
18/10/2010 - Competitions
The Tor de Geants mountain race by Stevie Haston. Stevie Haston, alpinist, ice climber and snowboarder, tells about his experience of the first ever Tor de Geants, the incredible mountain marathon which covers 330km and 24,000 vertical meters, starting and finishing at Courmayeur and completing a circle around the...
18/10/2010 - Climbing
Pete Robins repeats Sea of Tranquility 8c+ at Lower Pen Trwyn Pete Robins has repeated Sea of Tranquility 8c+ at Lower Pen Trwyn, north wales.
14/04/2010 - Climbing
Rainbow Slab, Llanberis slate climbing in north wales Rainbow Slab is arguably the jewel in the crown of Llanberis slate. The immense, smooth face is broken by a series of smaller ripples and of course by the rainbow itself, a pulsing vein which arches steeply in all its...
03/11/2008 - Book-press
On sight by Alastair Lee Filmmaker Alastair Lee gives exclusive insight into his latest climbing film, On sight, which examines the unpredictable, exciting and at times dangerous game of on-sighting trad routes, regardless of the grade of the climb.
07/02/2006 - Alpinism
Leichtfried blazes Illuminati M11+/WI 6+ On 24 January Albert Leichtfried made the first ascent of "Illuminati", a 5 pitch mixed outing located in Val Lunga, close to Selva Gardena (South Tyrol) N. Italy . The 30 year old Austrian has put forward the impressive grade...
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