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In July, Billy Ridal, Orrin Coley, Nathan Phillips, Tara Hayes, and Frances Bensley made the trip to Rocklands, South Africa. Anyone keeping an eye on UKC's 'Recent Top Ascents' page during the month of July may have an idea of how well the trip went. Between 1st July and 31st July, four hundred and one ascents were logged on UKC...

I'm not sure what I should have expected, but it isn't this. Me and Robbie have just come off the hill after another day trying to sketch together some faint new project on Ben Loyal in Scotland. The phone's ringing and it's Nico, We've had a space become available on our trip to the Mirror Wall, do you want to...

　　There’s a saying in Iceland that’s sort of the country’s unofficial motto: Þetta reddast (sounds like “thetta rettast”). Like so many Icelandic words there isn’t a direct translation into English, but the essence of it is, “Ehhh, it’ll be fine” My good friend Pétur Magnusson, who lives in Reykjavik, tells me, “It’s a big part of our national identity. It’s...

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In 2018, I joined Mike 'Twid' Turner, Steve Long, Angus Kille heading out to climb a remote big wall in central Brazil. The objective was to establish and free climb a new route on the south face of Pedra Baiana. However, the expedition ran into problems from day one. We arrived in Rio to find civil unrest in the streets,...

In January this year, Jacob Cook became the first British climber to complete the Care Bear Traverse, a link up of the first three summits of the infamous Fitz Roy Traverse. Climbing alongside good friend Tyler Karow, Jacob endured a series of unexpected challenges, both physical and psychological. Read his account of the expedition below. As I navigated my seemingly...

Earlier this year, a team of six kayaked ~450km along the west coast of Greenland, scoping out and establishing new routes on the vast granite cliffs of the Arctic Ocean. Jacob Cook and Bronwyn Hodgins told us more about the expedition; how they prepared, the routes they established, and what it's like to live in constant daylight. Can you summarise...