Check out this trailer for the latest film from the Polished Project - Echoes: Outside is hot and sticky featuring ME Pro partner Nick Bullock.The film will premiere in full at Nick's 'Echoes' book launch, which takes place at the Outside Cafe

that his lad is sitting on is actually theborder marker, painted red on the Polish side and white on theSlovakian side.'It's not uncommon to be challenged by border guards who demand tosee your passport. The cable car from Zakopane,the Polish equivalentof

out recyclable rubbish sacks to boulderers along with advice on how to care for the boulders themselves - clean your shoes before climbing, for example, because dirty shoes are a major contributor to polishing holds.At the end of the days, the climbers

.Freedom ClimbersThis is the first UK edition of Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald, which won both the Boardman Tasker and the Banff Grand Prize in 2011 and it's out this week. It's the story of Polish mountaineering between the 1970s and the 1990s

scramble is an exposed and dramatic route up themountain, but while it's striaghtforward but exposed in dry conditions,in the wet the polished, slanting, slabby crux section of the ridge canbecome extremely slippery making it a much harderundertaking

Mickledore - slopey, slippy and polishedAccording to the BBC, Wasdale MRT was called out totreat a walker with an arm injury below the tricky scramble at the baseof Scafell only for a second walker to plummet down from the sameplace. Lucky or unlucky? Hard to say

on Monday morning - here’s the story – so all in all it’s been a bad week for the MRT and for hillwalking in the UK.Climbing on IdwalThe Idwal slabs are a fantastic place to climb, with some cracking routes at a range of grades (and a touch of polish

This is a little promotional video that multi-award winning outdoors film-maker, Alastair Lee 'cobbled together' for the Berghaus Freeflow daypack series in between building a new trophy cabinet and polishing the 20-odd prizes he's landed

climbers hostel drawn up for a compeition.The Polish-designed, 100-metre tall tower structure would allow guests to tie in and sleep on artificial bivvy ledges on the outside of the structure, which would be made from stone blocks modelled on the local

and gawd knows what else have never really done it for me.That said, I've started reading Freedom Climbers, the story of post-war Polish mountaineering and it's brilliant, so maybe, just maybe I should give Unjustifiable Risk another shot as well. If you