Eager as always to get out while the snow is in the mountains, I set off this morning to climb ‘Col Gully on the side of Glyder Fach. I’ve fancied climbing this long snowy ramp for a while, but always been put off by the long walk up. As there was no snow in the Read more

It’s been a day of false starts and plan B’s but it all came good in the end, even if we were on about plan ‘f’ or ‘g’ by the time we started hiking! I set off early with a strong group, for a winter ascent of the Glyders, but broke down on the A55. Read more

Climbing takes you to all sorts of places and today it took me out of Wales and into the big city of Liverpool! I took a climbing club for a day out to ‘The Climbing Hangar’, where we enjoyed some great bouldering as well as a solid training session, where the lads all proved themselves Read more

Set out today, fully aware that blizzards and gales were on the way! There was a window of opportunity for my Mountain Walking group, that involved getting up and down the mountains before the worst of the weather arrived. Would we be fast enough? Given that the poor weather was approaching from the south, I Read more

Quick session this evening at the Beacon Climbing Wall to maintain a bit of climbing fitness! There’s an auto-belay with a stopwatch attached now, for speed climbing, as it’s due to be in the next Olympics. It seems like a bonkers event to me, but it’s quite funny to watch people furiously scrabbling their way up Read more

I’ve been very lucky to have travelled to a great many exciting places. Climbing and mountaineering have provided me with many great excuses to travel to all sorts of destinations that otherwise would have remained either unknown or off limits to me. From the jungles of the Amazon, the plains of Africa and expanses of Read more