After I did Rhapsody at Dumbarton in 2006, I pretty quickly packed up and moved to the Highlands of Scotland. There were lots of reasons for...

I’ve just written an article discussing in a bit more depth my psychological preparation for Echo Wall on PlanetMountain.com here. I’ve go...

Last night we were in Glasgow for the BAFTA Scotland new talent awards ceremony. Claire was nominated a few weeks ago for Best Director with...

I got home the other day to find Claire on the phone looking very cheery. Turns out it was Bafta Scotland on the phone saying she had been n...

I’ve talked a bit recently about my experiment in not giving my hardest route, Echo Wall a grade. I was interested last year to see if the ...

Here is a montage from climbing the Walk of Life. There was just the two of us there, so the footage of the lead was shot "press and go...

The premiere of Echo Wall passed in a blur for Claire and I on Sunday, with our first ever film picking up two awards, for Best Climbing Fil...

A lot of folk have been asking us which other routes are on the Echo Wall DVD. Here is the full list: Bouldering Bear Trap Prow V12 Frontal ...

The Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival have just reported that Alien Rock have about 20 tickets left, with a few more at Tiso for the sunday n...

Sometimes you need to make sacrifices, to meet your goals in life. This means some hard choices. But you know deep down when it’s the right ...

Stone Country Press have reviewed the Echo Wall DVD here We have just heard from our manufacturers that the DVDs should still be with us in ...

Here is another wee clip of soloing about on some right choss to get back to the top of Echo Wall and dislodging a couple of hefty rocks. Ou...

As part of our film about Echo Wall we really hoped to get an interview with the ice climbing legend Jimmy Marshall, who was perhaps the fin...

Neil Pearsons, editor of Climb Magazine has posted up the first review of the Echo Wall film on his site here. “...Echo Wall on Ben Nevis i...

Shaking out before the final crux on Echo Wall (video still) It’s been an interesting experiment, climbing the hardest route of my life but...

Here is a trailer for the Echo Wall film. We are expecting the DVD in late October (I hesitate to say an exact date!!) but if you would like...

Exit problem, Big Long Now, Sky Pilot (video still from Echo Wall) Usually a couple of times a year I start a post by saying sorry to you g...

Getting Echo Wall ready for it’s test screening at Fort William bouldering wall last week kept us up until some silly hours last week. But ...

Bank of Scotland arête, Nairn High Street It’s been another week of ups and downs working on our film of Echo Wall. We were most definitely...

Over the past two weeks I have done a good job of replacing climbaholism with workaholism. It’s funny how things fit together nicely. August...