Hot Aches have just completed this year’s film Committed Volume 1 which is on sale on October 15th. I’m taking pre-orders for it now from ...

I’ve put details up on my main site about a week of coaching and lectures I’m doing with Tiso in a couple of week’s time. I’ll be running cl...

Repeating Dawes Rides a Shovelhead E8 6c, Raven Crag. All photos: copyright Claire MacLeod With the northerlies last week came the first si...

I asked Kevin some questions for this blog after his solo of Fast & Furious: You are really into soloing – what’s its appeal above roped...

Kevin Shields – a bold soul (Photo: Claire MacLeod) The other night I got one of those texts that you can tell was written by someone so ex...

Leading If Six Was Nine, E9 6c, Iron Crag. Photo: copyright Claire MacLeod When we returned from our wee roadtrip, Autumn had hit Lochaber w...

I wrote the above post in the car on the way up the road from the lakes. Tonight I watched the Set in Stone film again since I was thinking ...

Working the Underdog Traverse V12 on the Scarpa team meet. All photos: Claire MacLeod. Click on them for a bigger image. Claire and I are h...

Yesterday was the scariest day of my life, and the end of the scariest ten days of my life. The impending lead of my ‘Great Climb’ project o...

Learning moves on a project. Photo: Steven Gordon We can all readily appreciate the beauty of rock and the shapes it gives to the world, we ...