Natalie Berry's Blog

All good things come in 3′s

The last few days have been very productive and exciting for me, as we come to the end of our trip to Yorkshire. Yesterday I ticked my project “Zoolook” 8a (just after Robbie - team ascent!) - a route which had taken a fair bit of patience to learn the sequence and cope with polished [...]

Ceuse Trip Summary

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 [...]

Apples, Cookies and Cous-cous…

Yesterday was a good day! I managed to tick my first major project this trip - “Petit Tom” 8a. I first tried this route last year and made it an objective to complete it at some point! As we only spent 12 days here last year, I didn’t have enough time to focus on it, [...]

Petit à petit!

Hey guys   Just a quick update from Ceuse! Unfortunately the internet hours at the campsite are limited, so we don’t have much time to update in detail After the disappointment of a full day of rain two days ago, me and Robbie decided to risk it and braved the 1 hour walk-in intending to [...]

Ceuse!!!

Hello from sunny Ceuse!   We are now on our first rest day after two days of long walk-ins, mosquito bites and of course plenty of quality climbing! Me and Robbie have based ourselves at the campsite amongst a lively crew of English speaking climbers from the UK, Australia and America. We arrived at about [...]