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Just back from back-to-back testing three different ice-gripping things.
Sometimes the world won't listen. Like when you desperately want to test a bunch of micro crampons and the weather steadfastly refuses to play along. So it was a bit of a relief this morning when the Peak dawned bleak and sub-zero, the last few days of slushy snow and melt ... Continue reading
Cracking footage from the programme for this year's selection of action films now touring the UK.
We've just told you all about the UK leg of the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, but to whet your appetite just a bit more, here's the trailer for the tour with some cracking footage pulled from the various award-winners and audience favourites that make up the programme. ... Continue reading
Matt Heason picks out one of the highlights of this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
We asked Matt Heason, the organiser of the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival to select a cracking trailer for a Friday afternoon and this is what he came up. Rather topically, 'Cold' is a very personal account of an expedition to climb 8,000m+ Gasherbrum 2 in winter.
Climbing with Simone Moro and Denis ... Continue reading
Awasrd-winning lightweight sleeping bag arriving soon and can be pre-ordered to make sure you get one...
Following on from our recent blog post video with Alpnick going through the details of the latest Pipedream sleeping bag, Aklpkit tells us that you can now pre-order the bags via their web site with stock due to arrive later this month.
We reckon they're going to go fast, so if you ... Continue reading
The guys from the BMC explain what they do for climbers - walkers version coming soon.
If you've ever wondered what the guys at the BMC do to support climbing and hill-walking, then this video is for you. Well, the climbing side of it anyway. The walking side - and hey, let's not be cynical here - will be covered in a future installment. In the mean ... Continue reading
It's back, or at least it's been replaced with the latest version.
You might remember the tragic demise of my faithful Berghaus E-case last week - a heart-breaking tale of faithful service ended by a fatal zip failure. Anyway, the good news is that I bought, yes, bought with my own money, a replacement in the shape of - cue drum-roll - ... Continue reading
People were asking how big Suunto's new explorer-friendly GPS watch is, so...
We told you a bit about Suunto's new AMBIT watch yesterday - in a nutshell, it combines a sophisticated GPS to allow navigation with a barometer-based altimeter, '3D compass' and an advanced heart rate monitor with the ability to download data - but a few people were asking about the size ... Continue reading
Tickets on sale now, plus loads of competition stuff up for grabs at this year's event.
We thought the cracking 2012 ShAFF trailer put together by Alastair Lee deserved another showing - amazingly, over 71,000 people have viewed it already on YouTube, leaving festival director Matt Heason, 'blown away'.
Not only that - cue smooth transition into news story - tickets for this year's event, which runs from ... Continue reading
AlpNick runs through the basics of the upgraded for 2012 lightweight PipeDream sleeping bag.
Alpkit's PipeDream was the original high-spec, lightweight, down sleeping bag for the budget-aware internet generation when it first arrived a few years back, since when it's won a reputation for being rather good and also popular enough that it's not always been readily available.
The good news is that a new batch ... Continue reading
American writer latest winner of OWPG's Golden Eagle gong.
Amusing US writer Bill Bryson has landed the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ Guild’s Golden Eagle Award for his campaigning work to protect the British countryside.
The award – inevitably described as 'prestigious' – is made annually by the body to 'presented to someone who has rendered distinguished or meritorious service to the outdoors' ... Continue reading
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