The 2010 BMC Gower Climbing Festival takes place on 10-12 September and promises to be a great way to experience the wide range of trad and sport climbing in this beautiful Welsh area. The first festival took place last year and was widely reckoned

Bay, on the Gower peninsula, when both fell, the woman falling over 70 feet. The rescue services were called to the cliff at 13.45 and attempted to save the life of the young woman, but she died at the scene forty-five minutes later. An RAF helicopter

A walkerhas been hospitalisedafter being bitten threetimes by an adder on a cliff path on the Gower peninsular,south west Wales.Caswell Bay - popular with walkers and climbers.Hamish Fenton - OM Gallery The walker was air-lifted to hospital after

OUTDOORSmagic.com regular Julie Vine - better know to forum usersas 'Julesaka Tigger' was unfortunate enough to be the subject of ahelicopter rescue after a climbing accident on the Gower earlier thisweek.Jules was climbing on Overton Cliff

, and down the west and south west Wales coast going east to Cardiff and Newport with views over the Bristol Channel.The finishing touches to the route are being undertaken right now with work taking place to complete the new 40-mile Gower Coast Path, one

Gower Peninsular and Britain's only coastal National Park in Pembrokeshire. Not only that, the existence of the Offa's Dike path means it's now possible to walk around the whole of Wales covering 1030 miles in the process. In development by the Welsh

from the Dee Estuary up in the NE of the principality, round via Anglesey, through to the Lleyn Peninsular, Barmouth, St Brides and Camarthen Bays before topping things off with Pembrokeshire and the Gower.It's a lovely mix of the micro and the macro

and scramblingCrib Goch in particular, pieces on coasteering and learning to surfon the Gower Peninsular - 'Until I found myself wedged into a wetsuit on the sands of Caswell Bay, the closest I had ever been tosurfing, was leering over Keanu Reeves in the film

's closed right now as far as walkers areconcerned anyway• GowerOpen Areas - mostly beaches adjacent to roads or car parksEnglishRegional Re-openingsThere's precious little out there that we know about, some detailsfrom the general links at the top

up a water run off... - Daniel Jones (Trust in God butpadlock your bike) Three Cliffs Bay, Gower - Alison StockwellThe climbing trip that almost never was when husband Bob wasforced to bail at the last moment and the kids followed suit - "Ihate