Another session of perfect conditions at Sky Pilot today and the moves have been done on the big highball. Still thinking it’ll be a V14 wit...

I’m talking at various places soon if you’d like to listen to some perspectives on climbing, trying hard, choosing your battles, if succeedi...

Blair hits the Roaring Forties (E3 5c) on Mucklehouse Wall. The route would also have described the weather conditions at the time despite t...

The west highlands almost lost two of it’s MacLeod’s to the A86 on Saturday morning after Claire wrapped her nice Audi around a tree. I was ...

Michael enjoying the St John’s head experience It’s been another journey of big ups and downs on Orkney over the past few days with Michea...

My recent travails on the massive lump of sandstone that makes the towering St John's Head brought home an important truth about climbin...

Gutted. My gear is laid out neatly ready on my loft floor for a trip to my project. Today at work at the Ice Factor I went on one of my old ...

Get in: Lactate dehydrogenase It’s Scotland, it’s late summer, and so it’s raining. Well, it’s raining on all my days off anyway. So the o...

Claire after her skydive yesterday. Not looking too scared I was just listening to Amartya Sen explaining on radio about his ideas about ...

St John’s Head, looking angry I made the journey back to Hoy, over Cuilags and across the plateau once again and uncoiled my ropes in mist...