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Operation Moffat | Weekly Video

This week’s video is a throwback to 2015’s Kendal Mountain Festival Best Climbing film, Operation Moffat, a colourful documentary about the life of Britain’s first female mountain guide, Gwen Moffat. Born in 1924, Gwen joined the army after the second world war as a driver for the Auxiliary Territorial Service but, having been introduced to climbing by a friend in the forces, she soon deserted to pursue an exciting life in the wilderness. Ever the pioneer, Gwen was known for climbing barefoot, swimming in freezing water and even wearing shorts on winter mountaineering trips!

March 18, 2022
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Quickdraws | Get Outdoors Top 5

With summer and the outdoor climbing season fast approaching, you might be planning to make your debut on real rock, taking the skills you’ve learnt at the gym to your local crags or boulders. In this mini-series we’ll be looking at some of the kit you’ll need to get started climbing outside. First up is sport climbing quickdraws, the things you’ll be relying on to protect you in the case of a fall at a pre-bolted crag or wall. Below we’ll suggest our top 5 picks (in no particular order) for your first set of sport climbing quickdraws, taking price and quality into account.

March 17, 2022
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The Longest Line | Weekly Video

This week’s video is a little bit different, coming to you from the incredible Cairngorm National Park, this special film follows Scottish adventurers Calum Maclean and Jenny Graham (who holds the world record for cycling around the world) as they attempt an end-to-end journey of Britain's longest linear walk without encountering a road. The route in question was first created in 2018 by the map makers at the Ordnance Survey and, of course, the line cuts across the rugged and spectacularly remote landscape of Scotland. Traversing the land without deviance from the line, the route covers 78.55 km (44 miles) from the A9 to the A939 with a total ascent of 5706 metres.

March 11, 2022
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Confluence | Weekly Video

This week’s video is an awesome bouldering film from Mellow, taped in the incredible Little Cottonwood Canyon, just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Following Zach Galla, Sean Faulkner, and Toinon Beigne round the canyon, this week’s psych inducing video hit explores some of the area’s proudest lines whilst putting on record some of the trio’s inspiring first ascents. Courtesy of Sohi Studios, Confluence is a wonderful combination of crisp aesthetics and an homage to the 90’s skate videos that iconised the fish eyed, changing perspective of raw, left field action. Through the professional lens, Little Cottonwood steals the show with beautiful, striking granite lines that are inspiring enough to whet any boulderer’s appetite – mixing Magic Wood with America’s vast scale and wilderness, LCC has it all.

March 04, 2022
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La Sportiva Tempesta GTX running shoes review

La Sportiva Tempesta GTX | Running Shoe Review

For a bit of context most of my fell running is in the Lake District, and my go to shoe for years has been the classic La Sportiva Mutant. My only issue with these shoes is that during the colder months my feet get absolutely freezing, making winter running extremely uncomfortable. So when I got the chance to try a pair of the new La Sportiva Tempesta GTX I absolutely jumped at the chance! So let’s see how they have squared up over a few hundred frozen winter miles.

February 28, 2022
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Profewssional climber Magnus Midtbo tries ice climbing for the first time

Ice Climbing With Magnus Midtbo | Weekly Video

The King of climbing’s YouTube scene is back with his latest video, this time from Saas-Fee in Switzerland, the host resort for this year’s UIAA ice climbing world championships. Magnus is there to check out the ice climbing game and, having never climbed with axes and crampons before, is introduced to the basics, both on ice and the dry tooling competition wall. In the capable hands of UIAA’s Robert Adie, Magnus experiences his first ice on the training top rope before heading out to some beautiful real ice.

February 25, 2022
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EB Red | Climbing Shoe Review

Nailing the essentials, the EB Red weaves uncompromising performance into one of the most accessible and superbly comfortable climbing shoe packages I’ve ever experienced. In today’s market of soft, floppy slippers, the Red stands out with a rather traditional set of features, prioritising classic edging performance and precision over the volume jumping status quo. Being a bit of a small edge enthusiast, I immediately felt right at home in the Red with its stiff, full length sole and asymmetrical profile providing a solid foundation of technical abilities.

February 22, 2022
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Will Bosi climbs Voyager 8B/V13 | Weekly Video

This week’s video comes straight from the fantastic Peak District where Five Ten athlete, Will Bosi checks out Voyager, a super classic boulder first ascented by Ben Moon back in 2005. Voyager has become an iconic boulder in the Peak with its striking aesthetic and unique style of cutting-edge, overhanging gritstone. Unlike many of its gritstone counterparts, Voyager’s difficulty comes from its tiny, razor sharp pebble pulling rather than tenuous smears or technical hold fondling. To make matters worse for Will, the crucial crux hold broke 3 years ago and the climb has remained unrepeated since with the final sequence of moves now proving far more difficult.

February 18, 2022
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Climbing with Adam Ondra | Weekly Video

Collaborations or ‘collabs’ are a quintessential part of the content world, boosting profiles and combining skills. In this week’s video, Adam Ondra and Stefano Ghisolfi collaborate to take on Arco. With these two being at the pinnacle of the climbing game, the potential is endless in a playground like Arco which is teeming with untouched rock and open projects. One of the very best ways to improve as a climber is to climb with someone who is better than you. This should expose you to better techniques and climbing styles whilst giving you a huge motivational boost. If Stefano and Adam can apply this to their partnership then the potential is endless.

February 11, 2022
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UK Mountaineering Paradise: Isle of Skye | Destination Article

Thousands of Brits may flock to Europe each year for their alpine fix, but there’s somewhere on our little island* that might just tick the box for the majority of you. This write up takes you on our little tour of Scotland’s Misty Isle: Skye.
*connected to the mainland via the aptly thought name; Skye Bridge, built in 1995.

February 04, 2022
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Below Zero 8B+ | Weekly Video

In typical Scotsman style, this week’s video from Dave MacLeod is short but sweet. With fellow Scot, Will Bosi, having made the first ascent of Below Zero at the start of January (the stand start to Macleod’s boulder, Zero, 8B), it was only a matter of time before Mr Scotland himself turned up to dispatch the problem. Found on the Wobble Block at Rooftown, the climb takes in everything the rock has to offer, notably featuring a hideous undercut rollover crux that Dave dispatches with ease on his send attempt.

February 04, 2022
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Rock+Run AT2 | Wood Rings Review

Lightweight, compact and extremely versatile – the Rock + Run AT2 rings are the ultimate portable performance training tools, proving to be the perfect device for training on the go and warming up at the crag. Ticking every finger training fundamental at a competition killing price, the AT2 rings have to be the best portable climbing option on the market – here’s why.

January 28, 2022
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