Hey Guys I have just returned from yet another eventful and character building climbing trip to Céüse, France. I was out there for around 4 weeks in total with two others travelling with me from Scotland, Andy Latta and William Bosi. For those of you who don’t know Andy and William, Andy is one of my oldest and best friends, we have shared many adventures together since we were young and he is still my favourite climbing buddy on outdoor sport climbing trips. William is one of my young apprentices who is quickly becoming a master. For William, this was his... Continue reading

So... We have returned from yet another sport climbing adventure in Europe. The last 2 weeks of our trip where a bit tough, what with my skin injury and Nat being ill, but hey, its been a pretty awesome year for climbing so far so what's two weeks? As Nat said in her blog, we learned a lot from the trip and as soon as we had left the crag on our way home, we were already planning our next moves towards overcoming our new challenges and seeing our climbing goals met this year. Both Nat and I built ourselves a new... Continue reading

I'm back in Scotland now and although it's good to be home (especially as I am still ill!) I am missing the rock and the people we met during our trip! 5 weeks was a long time to spend in one place, and the combination of camping in a tent during cold nights and doing the epic hour-long walk-in roughly 25 times up and down certainly took its toll on us! Our last week was frustrating in that Robbie's finger was split open on his 8b project and I fell ill with suspected food poisoning through handling raw chicken  - resulting... Continue reading

Hey Guys So I haven't blogged in the last week, basically because nothing exciting has happened with my climbing. About a week ago my hand slipped whilst redpointing an 8b in Demi Lune and I suffered a massive flapper on the tip of my middle finger. It basically took half my pad off and its pretty darn deep too. It's been one week since then and I still haven't been able to climb with it. Looking at it now, even after one week of skin growth, the pad is still red raw and stings to touch :'( I guess this is... Continue reading

Hey guys! The last few days have been very busy indeed, well except for yesterday which was a very rainy rest day! We drove to Gap with our group of Irish friends and spent the day there to avoid the soggy campsite - after the disappointment of discovering that our favourite boulangerie was closed, we spent about 2 hours in the supermarket and had a relatively (compared to baguettes and salad!) extravagant lunch. We then ventured to the pet shop across the road where we saw turtles, a black chicken which looked like "Big Bird" and lots of reptiles, fish and... Continue reading