The World Cup-style competition wall for the forthcoming British Bouldering Championship was – as of yesterday afternoon – complete. 

In what has the measure of a Dawn Wall-esque project, Matt Segal and Will Stanhope are back in the Bugaboos in British Columbia for their latest stint trying to free-climb the Tom Egan Memorial Route on the East Face of Snowpatch Spire.

In less than a week many of the best senior competition boulderers in the country will be going head-to-head in the British Bouldering Championship at the Cliffhanger Outdoors festival in Millhouse Park, Sheffield.

Fancy tea with Michael Palin or owning a piece of Everest? Mountaineers urge “Dig deep and bid high” to help the mountain people of Nepal

WideBoyz, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, have been mixing it up on Eye of the Tiger – Pete coming away with a ground-up repeat and Tom snagging a new direct finish - Thrill of the Fight (E7 6c).

Neil Gresham, who returned to active sport climbing in the UK and new routing earlier in the season with the first ascent of Straight Jacket (F8a+) at Malham, has released a video of his new route and thoughts on the Malham/UK sport climbing scene.

Sean McColl and Akiyo Noguchi proved popular gold medalists in #3 of the World Cup bouldering compition held in Chongqing, China over the weekend.

News is emerging that James ‘Caff’ McHaffie and Ryan Pasquill have both repeated Divided Years (E8/9) in the Mourne Mountains ground-up.

Jim Pope has just tweeted that he’s succeeded on what is thought to be the second ascent of the Ben West’s Helvetia at Shipwreck Cove, Gower.

Chris Sharma has gone back to his roots – literally – for his latest project free-climbing a gigantic Redwood tree in a Californian forest.

Mountaineering legends, Sir Chris Bonnington and Doug Scott are celebrating along with the rest of the team after successfully completing their challenge to climb the height of Everest on the ice-climbing wall at the King Kong Climbing Centre in Keswick.

An excellent short film by Ben Pritchard of Ben Moon making the 4th ascent of Rainshadow (F9a) at Malham Cove in Yorkshire.