After a blustery afternoon up on the Great Orme, near Llandudno I finished the book I’ve been reading during recent travels. It’s called ‘The Wild Within’ by Simon Yates. He’s a pretty understated guy, who has done some pretty cool expeditions to some amazing places. It’s kind of a diary/biography of the last ten years Read more

What to do on a wet and windy day in North Wales? Didn’t fancy getting in the sea, or kayaking down a river, but did fancy going climbing. Tremadog is usually the best bet in such conditions, but only the super optimistic would have bothered today. Luckily for us, that’s exactly what we are and Read more

Out of the mountains and into the city! After a hectic few weeks and having returned from Norway, I was pretty much straight back to the airport and off again. This time though, I wasn’t dragging around a huge duffel bag full of climbing kit – I was travelling light and off to explore the Read more

Brutally cold in the valley today! I was up at 6am again to go ahead of the group and fix some ropes as I wanted to keep the standing around to a minimum and also make sure that we were first to the routes we wanted to climb. Getting up in the cold and dark Read more

Twelve years since the legendary ‘Norge Ice Trip’ and I’m back ice climbing in the winter climbing playground of Rjukan. Not much has changed in the valley, except that now the weekends are busy with climbers! It’s been between minus 8 and minus 4 all day and we’ve packed in loads of climbing. I was Read more

A travellers day. Off on a new adventure. This time travelling to Norway for some Ice Climbing. The flight to Oslo gave us some brilliant views of the Norwegian coastline.  Then it was into the hire car for the drive north to the town of Rjukan. The temperature is a few degrees below freezing and Read more