I am pleased to announce that I have recently agreed new sponsorship with The Mountain Boot Company. This exciting development now means I am now associated with Grivel, Deuter, Outdoor Research, Scarpa, Lorpen and Ski Trab. As a result of my sponsorship with MBC I now have the support of an established outdoor company at …
Pulling through the steep bulge on Prore DirectPhoto Credited to Graeme Melville After an awesome day on “Happy Tyroleans”, Mike headed home and I met up with Guy Robertson that evening for another days climbing tomorrow. We slept in our cars in the Cairngorm car park and were up bright and early the next morning …
This week I decided to visit what would normally be one of my regular winter haunts, but which recently I have actually been neglecting. As is always the case with Coire an Lochain, no matter how long it has been since you last visited, it never fails to deliver. This trip was no different. A …
Since the recent thaw has hit Scotland, I have had the chance to do some well needed work to restock the bank balance and also get some good training sessions in over the past week. On Wednesday Mike Tweedley and I headed up to the Cairngorms, planning on getting some winter action in Coire an Lochain. But as the …
Today I headed up to Stob Coire an Lochain with Steve Lynch. I only had one route left that I really wanted to do before I headed out the France. This route was The Duel! Steve Leading the first pitch We headed up early this morning to the foot of Summit buttress, and got stuck …
Yesterday Adam and I headed up to a very, very snowy Ben Nevis. I have not seen Adam for about 6 months, so it was good to get out with him again, and what better to do but get cranking on some winter routes together! On my way to calf pump on the first pitch …
Will rapping into the route After a good day on the Ben on the 31st, Will and I decided to head up to the NW for some Beinn Eighe action. Once we had traversed the whole of the ridge (got lost walking in) and eventually found the crag, we did the route Blood Sweat and Frozen tears. It …
On Thursday I drove West again to meet up with another friend of mine who was over from Chamonix (France) for the festive period. This time it was Will Sim, who was just stopping off in Britain on his was back to the Alps after a successful trip to Patagonia with John Griffith. I picked Will up at the …
As Christmas is fast approaching, people are travelling all over the world to be home with their families. Ally Swinton (a good friend of mine) is one of these people, and last week he flew home from Chamonix in the French Alps to surprise his parents and to be home for the festive period. As I had …
Yesterday Mike Tweedley and I headed up to Stob Coire an Lochain to have a pop at the mega classic line “Unicorn”. We had talked about climbing this route together two years ago but had never actually got round to getting on it. We arrived at the bottom of the route just as the sun was turning …
