It’s almost the end of January.  New years resolutions seem to many nothing more than a distant (and slightly embarassing?) memory.  A friend in my office made it a resolution not to check emails during the day.  The hours of 9 – 5 were to be email free. At 1pm today he was on his …

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Over the next few weeks there will be some exciting changes here at TryClimbing. For almost a decade (how time has flown!) TryClimbing has advertised Climbing Instruction for beginners, outside across the UK with Steve Puttick. Drawing on this experience TryClimbing is now being re-created to focus on providing free online advice for beginners.  Bookmark …

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Attention all climbing mums & dads! Fed up of endless Zebras, Zylophones and Frogs in your baby’s picture books?! Finally there is a climbing solution. Ideal for those late nights gazing at pictures, over on teachclimbing.co.uk there is a brand new high contrast book ‘MTNS FOR BABY’. Black & White images great from birth and …

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Mountains of the mind: a history of a fascination This is a brilliant book.  Its central idea, that few other mountaineering books have touched on, is that what mountains mean is socially constructed.  This is the ‘mountains of the mind’ idea.  Which might sound like a strange statement.  Clearly, literal, physical masses of rock and …

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The BMC have recently released a great article about ‘campus board’ training.  If you have been to an indoor wall you may well have seen one of these lovely pieces of equipment.  Probably the simplest of all climbing features to install, they consist simply of a piece of 18mm plywood, about 2m x 4m, starting …

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