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From Always inventing stuff - Mark Vallance
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From Panoramic Route
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From Sabi Sand Game Reserve Safari
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From Waterval Boven
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From Cape Town
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From A post CC AGM day in Cwm Idwal
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From Caravan, Camping, and Motorhome Show at the NEC
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From BMC Meetings & Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
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From Winter Skills on Helvellyn
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
So sad to hear that Mark Vallance has passed away. He was a good friend, and him being “the” guy that brought us cams, i.e. “Friends”, we all owe him at least a moment of thanks. Of course not only did he transform most climber’s lives but he helped transform the BMC and the CC …
After our amazing safari experience the final part of our South African adventure was to take in the Panoramic Route on our way back to Johannesburg…
This was it, the main event, the most exciting part of our trip to South Africa – a Safari…
The next leg of our South African adventure was Waterfall Boven. I’ve been to Waterval Boven before on an international meet run by the Mountain Club of South Africa. It’s a great sport climbing venue, with a few high quality trad lines too, but it’s certainly the tough sport climbing here that gives it international …
We’ve wanted to visit South Africa for years and years, and this year events conspired to make it possible…
Although we did get out Saturday morning for a bit of bumble around the Llanberis slate quarries most of the day was taken up with CC business. I had a presentation to deliver about the Ynys Ettws refurbishment, then there was the AGM, talks from Mina Mina Leslie-Wujastyk and Maddie Cope, and finally dinner and …
We’d snagged some complimentary tickets to the Caravan, Camping, and Motorhome Show at the NEC, and all we had to do for them was promise to write a report about the show on this site. Ha, as if that wasn’t going to happen! 😉 This is exactly the sort of thing we love to write …
Leafy Wye Valley and the aptly named Wilderness Centre was the venue for the BMC National Council meeting this past weekend…
Last Sunday I was up early to meet Joe and his large group of 14 people in Glenridding for a day looking at winter skills, ice axe arrest, and a wintry scramble up Swirral Edge to the summit of Helvellyn. The forecast wasn’t great, but it could have been worse, and in the end it …
