July 2019
- Monday 1st July 2019
Issue Information
Contents
News
6: News
E10 for McClure, Gogarth E8/9 for Mason, Lakes E9 repeat, 13-year-old climbs V15, Finland hard trad route, Ed Drummond.
Destinations / Crags / Features
18: Bayan Massir – Destiny’s Manifest
Gareth Leah searches for enlightenment in the mountains of Oman in the Middle East.
28: Easy Limestone – Twistleton Scar, Yorkshire
Continuing the look at venues for lower grade climbers, this time in the Yorkshire Dales.
34: Ramshaw Rocks
An overview of one of Staffordshire’s finest gritstone crags with a wealth of classic routes.
46: Caithness Sea Cliffs
For the adventurous – Simon Nadin highlights exploration in Scotland’s far north.
Interview
24: Adventure photographer, Alpinist and artist Ben Tibbetts.
Bouldering
52: Coppermines Valley
Historical bouldering on the flanks of Coniston in the Lake District.
Indoor Climber
60: The Road to Tokyo – part 1
How competition climbing got from Leeds in 1989 to the Olympics in 2020.
64: Warwick University’s new climbing wall.
Training & Skills
66: The Climber’s Coach
Talk is Cheap. Mark Reeves looks at head games.
70: Safe and Sensible: Lowering off sport climbs
Gear
72: Alpine Hardware
Ice axes, crampons and ice screws plus Rab Kinetic Alpine clothing.
Regulars
14: UK Classics
High Neb Buttress (VS 4c), Stanage Edge, Derbyshire.
16: The Climber’s Voice
Parallel Piped, Froggatt by Andy Clarke.
42: James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini
Sawanobori – The Japanese art of climbing waterfalls.
58: Book and Film Reviews
Edmund Hillary – A Biography, The Burgess Book of Lies and Four Miles High.
78: BMC Update
The latest news from the British Mountaineering Council.
82: Climber Legends
Andy Pollitt.