Ian Sykes (Spike) gave me a copy of his new book ‘In the shadow of Ben Nevis ’ which is just out. Spike is a household name in the Locha...

Matt Fitzgerald’s first text on weight optimisation for endurance athletes is a first in it’s field and understandably a best seller-  it’s...

Been meaning to post this for a while... The Players is as you might have guessed a classic American sport/bouldering flick - hard climber...

Crackoholic Thanks to this DVD, I will soon be going to Sweden to climb granite. Wow! I live in a place surrounded by brilliant climbing, so...

I’ve been meaning to post up reviews of quite a few important new items I’ve been enjoying/using over the autumn. So below are some short ...

I doubt if there is any piece of climbing equipment more readily drooled over than whatever  newest model of ice tool is released by Black...

About 14 years ago, I got a book out of the library that chronicled the history of climbing on Ben Nevis. It was an epic story of the chall...

After my last post about John and Layla turning their hand to good food and gallery running, it got me thinking about all the creative peopl...

My friend Scott emailed recently looking for some pictures for a brochure he was putting together for his new range of holds . He already ru...

For bouldering in Scotland, 2008 will be a pivotal year. The pace of development of Scottish bouldering and discovery of new areas has accel...

Yet another of Scotland’s climbing heartlands gets the new SMC guidebook series treatment. For sure there is no going back for the SMC guide...

I know that some folks wondered why the SMC had to separate the North West of Scotland areas into even more separate guidebooks. Well the in...

The Scottish mountaineering club are best known in the climbing world for a) stuffy gentlemen looking down their nose at the modern climbing...

The raw footage of E11 - thats a lot of hours behind the camera! (Hot Aches Images) Jo has written a review of the E11 film on Cubby Images...