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REVIEW: BOULDER BRITAIN

A review of the new select guidebook by Niall Grimes on British bouldering, which covers 180 venues and 3,200 problems.

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REVIEW: The Long Hope DVD

A review of the film of Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner's ambitious attempt to free direct version of the iconic Long Hope route on St John's Head on Hoy in the Orkney Islands, first climbed 40 years before by Ed Drummond and Oliver Hill.

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INTERVIEW: Steve McClure

Despite his own modest protestations about being weak and not a very strong climber Steve McClure is Britain's best sport climber for a generation and still going for it at the age of 40. Andy McCue talks to him about his climbing life, those

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