One for London OMers' diaries with the news that Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner are going to be lecturing at the RGS on the 8 February followed by a showing of the award-winning Long Hope Film.The event's being sponsored by Gore-Tex and is about

Loose end? Check out the trailer for the latest Hot Aches film, The Long Hope, which landed the People's Choice prize at this year's Kendal Mountain Festival and features Dave MacLeod tackling a sea cliff, which originally took seven days to climb

and Paclite waterproofas a package. There are other specialist brands on thesite too.It's great to see this interesting brand getting easier to findand reportedly selling well. Hopefully it'll get easier to trackdown in other retailers this year.

cracking line-up too. There are films for sure, including a screening of 'The Long Hope' featuring local resident Dave MacLeod tackling big cliff climbing on Hoy and a Best of Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour night, which is pretty self explanatory

The Long Hope Direct (E11) in The Long Hope. 'Extremely scary adventure climbing with birds vomiting on you'... Oooh err...E11? You want E11? You couldn't handle E11... Yep, MacLeod again, this time often in monochrome and on a two-year mission to climb

.youtube.com/watch?v=frebysJuv3YThe Long Hope'Probabaly the most epic adventure you could have in Britain' - ace trailer for the excellent Hot Aches film of Dave MacLeod's free ascent of the intimidating The Longhope Route Direct (E11) on Hoy, nicely placed in context by inter

RAF Lossiemouth and Corporal Rusty Bale from RAF Kinloss, made it to the top and they hope to be followed closely by their 12-strong teammates as long as the weather holds. In normal life, the mountain rescue team are volunteer RAF personnel who help

gathering of theclans in Hope last Saturday. The arranged meeting point was theWoodbine Café on the high street of the village.And Lo! The wise did follow the prophecy foretold by Good Jon,'long many roads, vales, and 'cross hills, to find the chosen place

's made quite a splash and we make no apologies for including the trailer yet again, it's worth a watch on its own. More festival info and on-line booking at www.shaff.co.uk - Anyway, over to Mattt:The Long Hope Route – Paul Diffley’s latest film from Hot

spells the end of the long-running andcontroversial dispute over the rights of the quarry owners to extractlimestone from Backdale Quarry under a legal loophole over mineralrights.Essentially the quarry owners are allowed to extract the mineralfluospar