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News: In the absence of snow

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:09:16 +0000

I'm starting to get very psyched for this season's ski-mountaineering races. The reasons for thi...

News: A game of two halves

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:36:19 +0000

When you go on expedition to climb new routes in a little-visited area, you do so with an accepta...

Photos: Patagonia Sep/Oct 2009

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:20:11 +0000

Expedition to Cerro San Lorenzo, followed by a trek round the Fitzroy massif.

News: A change of focus

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:54:58 +0100

I�ve spent most of the summer focussing on my running, a decision I�m pretty pleased with as it h...

News: Le Tour du Glandasse

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:11:49 +0100

I've been visiting my french exchange from when I was 14 for the last few days, for a wedding ann...

Photos: Le Tour du Glandasse

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:09:42 +0100

Some photos taken the day before running a route I've dubbed "Le Tour du Glandasse", near Die, in...

News: Snowdon horseshoe record

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:24:09 +0100

I stopped off in Snowdonia on the way back from my 8th and final Msc module for another crack at ...

News: Snowdon horseshoe record attempt

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:57:23 +0100

I decided to have a couple of running days in north Wales between a weekend's climbing and my 7th...

News: Sunny rock climbing

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:39:13 +0100

Just had a lovely two days rock climbing in North Wales with an my old friend Eric. Gogarth on t...

News: Etterbeek to Ennerdale

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:26:51 +0100

I spent much of last month in Brussels with my girlfriend, combining a string of social engagemen...

News: Racing

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:11:46 +0100

Life�s been a bit hectic for the last month or so. I had a load of work on, which coincided with ...

News: All dressed up and nowhere to go

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:08:49 +0100

Ben and I seem to have a jinx on ski races. This year the two previous races we entered both had...

Photos: Vent du Dragon

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:07:21 +0100

A nice little mixed route on the north side of the Cosmiques arete, climbed with Toby Johnson.

Article: Meeting the Godfather

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:57:00 +0100

Article published on UK climbing about an attempt to repeat "The Godfather" (VIII, 8) on Beinn Bh...

Photos: Skinny race ski practice

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:49:13 +0000

Touring and off piste skiing with Bobby Gilbert on my skinny race skis, March 2009.

Photos: Winter Ramsay attempt

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:41:31 +0000

Attempt on a winter Ramsey round on skis. Ended around hour 8 in very bad weather. Got as far a...

Article: Island Dreams

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:26:29 +0000

First published in Fellrunner magazine, autumn 2008. This article can be found in a PDF

Article: Passing the baton

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:13:46 +0100

I think back over my development as a climber and wonder how I came to be ...

Article: Running In Heaven

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:26:22 +0100

Article by Colin Wells about my Cuillin ridge run, originally published in the Sunday Herald. ...

Article: The longest winter route ever

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:37:53 +0100

An account of a christmas spent in Chamonix early in my climbing career. Unpublished. "You try t...

Article: Eco climbing

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:50:00 +0100

Previously published in Climb magazine, August 2006. My knowledge has moved on a lot since I wro...

Article: The Teacher

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:36:18 +0100

I wrote this article after spending the summer of 2004 in Kyrgyzstan. It marked a return for me ...

Photos: Chamonix autumn

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:11:06 +0100

Contamine route and the Colton MacIntyre, September 2008

Photos: Snowdonia multisport weekend

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:43:08 +0100

Jon Morgan and I had an exhausting weekend in Snowdonia, running the welsh 3000s on the Saturday,...

Photos: Lundy 2008

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:01:33 +0100

Short rock climbing trip to Lundy August/September 2008.

Photos: Greenland July/August 2008

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:44:07 +0100

Big wall climbing expedition to an unnamed valley in the Tasermiut Fjord.

Photos: New route at Neist

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:27:06 +0100

First ascent of "Afterwork Adrenaline" (E5 6a) at the Green Lady area of Neist, with Ben Wear.