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'A Totally Strange Day' - 550 routes for Randall and Whittaker 20th June 2003: John Arran and Shane Ohly managed to climb over 500 Peak grit routes in a day. John climbed 536 routes and Shane 502, in 18 hours. The challenge was set. Five years later, John... In Memoriam: Stephen Cutler Last Sunday Stephen Cutler died whilst descending from one of his favourite climbs at the top of Raven Crag, Langdale in the Lake District. The 45-year-old was scrambling down off the rock with... The Sky Pirates of Hoy.......first B.A.S.E jump In 1966 Chris Bonington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey made the first ascent of the 137m (450ft) Old Man of Hoy situated on west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The... Ground-Up Round-Up, Action..Action..Action.. The ground-up scene in the UK is still buzzing, with the main players hacking their way up everything, from the loose horror-shows of the sea cliffs to the bullet hard gritstone test... Lisa Rands Ticks South African V12 Lisa Rands sent Nutsa (V12) despite rainy weather at the sandstone mecca of Rocklands, South Africa. Rands had tried the problem on previous trips to the area, but bad weather and injury hindered... Cobra Crack - Repeated Preliminary Report, more details to follow. News has reached us that Nico Favresse has repeated Cobra Crack in Squamish. Cobra Crack is one of the hardest traditionally protected routes in the... Pringle Trots The Path...5.14 R...E10 The Californian climber Ethan Pringle has quickly repeated The Path (5.14 R, 130') established by Sonnie Trotter last August. Ethan Pringle is one of the rising stars of American climbing who... Gear, Gear, Gear....OutDoor 2008 UKClimbing.com's Editor Jack Geldard and myself have just spent four busy and intense days at this year's OutDoor 2008, at Friedrichshafen, Germany on the shores of Lake Constance. The OutDoor... Second F8c+ on-sight from Usobiaga Spain's Patxi Usobiaga continues his run of form by on-sighting Home Sweet Home F8c+ at Pierrot Beach, Preles in France. This is Patxi's second on-sight of a route at this grade, his first being the... Raven Tor Vandalised The famous tree at Raven Tor, used to start the iconic routes Indecent Exposure, the Prow and Body Machine, has been chopped down by persons unknown - photo of stump. The incident happened during the... Font 8b Flash by Tyler Landman According to his scorecard on 8a.nu, Britain's Tyler Landman has made a flashed ascent of an unnamed Font 8b boulder problem in the Valais area. This makes Tyler one of only a handful of elite... British Bouldering Championship 2008 - Full Report Read the full report: HERE Cliffhanger 2008 ended in a blaze of glorious evening sunshine late Sunday night in Sheffield and for the second year running the city played host to the British... Epic Route Freed - St. John's Head, Orkney Iain Miller and Ross Jones have freed Testament to the Insane (XS 5b, 470m) on St. John's Head in Orkney in a 12 hour push. A full photo topo is available on orkney-seastacks.co.uk The route... Andy Kirkpatrick is Doctor Gear at UKClimbing.com Andy Kirkpatrick is heading up a new article series on UKClimbing: Andy Kirkpatrick's Doctor Gear. Read the first one here: Doctor Gear Andy, who has previously worked as gear editor for magazines... VIDEO: Bachar-Yerian Without Bolts: The Audacity of Youth: George Ullrich Many would agree that the Bachar - Yerian (5.11c R/X) on Medlicott Dome in California's Tuolumne Meadows is one of the finest routes in the world, on the most perfect sheet of golden granite, in one...