Kendal Mountain Festival have launched the annual photographic competition.

Seb Bouin is absolutely on fire at the moment having done the first ascent of what is now thought to be France’s hardest single pitch route La Rage d’Adam (F9b/+) last week and then repeated Hossana (F8c max), France’s hardest multi-pitch climb just yesterday.

Beta have just announced that they are to distribute Wild Country equipment within the UK.

Plas y Brenin, the national Mountain Sports Centre has rebranded and launched a new website.

Leading climber Ethan Walker has just won the Climbing category of the 2014 Trespass Blog Awards. He shares his latest blog with Climber and it's well worth a read.

Mike Pescod recalls a two week alpine experience and a clutch of classic climbs.