This week sees four of our annual End of Year articles published.
You can read them at our newly designed Articles Page
So far live are:
- Jack Geldard (Editor, UKC) on Trad climbing in 2008.
- Kevin Avery (Assistant Editor, UKC) on Sport Climbing.
- Leah Crane on Women.
- Jon Griffith on the Alps.
Coming soon are Tyler Landman on Bouldering and Kevin Thaw on Super Alpine achievements
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| Feature: Kendal Mountain Festival Report |
![[Catherine Destivelle introduced her new film Beyond the Summits., 1 kb]](/images/t/104685.jpg "[Catherine Destivelle introduced her new film Beyond the Summits., 1 kb]") Kevin Avery says, "It's that feeling many of us get when we're out in the mountains. "Never again," you might think but within 20 minutes of getting back to the car all the pain and misery is forgotten. Strange bunch aren't we? "
Alan James said, ""Messner delivered a lecture that he had delivered many times before and didn't we know it."
Sarah Clough contemplated, ""The author Kurt Vonnegut wrote that human beings are gregarious creatures who are not happy in nuclear families, and that we should surround ourselves with like minded people and 'create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.""
Mick Ryan as usual says too much. |
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| Photo of the Week |
"Nightsoloing at Stanage" © Dan Arkle |
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Our Photo Gallery contains a unique collection of over 72,600 images from UKClimbing users, with 317 new photos added this week.
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| Latest Articles |
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Read our Latest Articles for inspirational rock destinations, interviews, gear reviews, competitions and much more:
| End of Year: Sport Climbing 2008: Kevin Avery takes us on a global tour of sport climbing, stopping to chat to some of the world leading athletes about their 2008 achievements.
With exclusive photos of Jumbo Love -... |
| End of Year: Female Achievements 2008: Leah Crane takes us through the most significant female achievements of 2008, including bouldering, sport climbing and of course good old trad climbing. She documents some of... |
| End of year: Alpine 2008: UKC Alpine correspondent and gear reviewer Jon Griffith takes us through five impressive feats of Alpinism this year, including action from the Grande Jorasses, speed climbs on the Eiger and... |
| End of Year: Trad 2008: Jack Geldard takes a look at the year's trad highlights, from Ben Nevis super-routes to Gritstone highballs, with a bit of everything in between.
He rounds up inspirational trad climbs from... |
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