Win A Complete Berghaus Outdoors Outfit!

Lecture tours mean prizes, or, erm something like that. Which is a rather convoluted way of saying that to mark the launch of this month's Berghaus 'Stories From The Vertical World' lecture tour, we're giving away a complete set of Berghaus kit to one lucky OM member.

But first the January lecture tour, which features Berghaus-sponsored climbers Leo Houlding, and the German brothers Thomas and Alex Huber.

Leo Houlding, is of course, probably Britain's best young climber with numerous, serious climbs to his credit including some impressive Yosemite ascents, not the least of which was the second free ascent of El Niño on the North America Wall on El Capitan. He's known as much for the style of his climbing as for the routes themselves and is renowned as an entertaining and thoughtful speaker.

It was in Yosemite that Leo first met the Huber brothers, who'd made the first free ascent of the route says earlier. The Hubers are perhaps less well known in the UK, but have a phenomenal climbing CV. Alex Huber will be talking about his free ascent of 'Bellavista' on Cima Ovest, one of the hardest multi-pitch free routes in the world and one which Alex redpointed in a day.He will also reflect on his free solo ascent of the 'Direttissima' on Cima Grande.

Meanwhile, brother Thomas Huber is going to be recalling his 2001 second ascent of the Ogre in Pakistan. The Ogre was first climbed by a team including Doug Scott and Chris Bonington and became notorious for Scott's epic retreat from the mountain with two broken legs...

For full information and ticket details see this page on the Berghaus web site. Briefly the dates and venues are: Carlisle - 18 January; Edinburgh - 19 January; Newcastle - 20 January; London - 21 January; Swansea - 22 January.

Yep, we're giving away a load of fab Berghaus kit in our easy to enter competition including a Sullivan XCR Jacket, an Infinity Pro, an Xstatic Top, a Crag sac and a pair of new GR20 trekking boots. All you have to do is go to this page and answer the simple question there.