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Zlagpro fingerboard hangboard sloper units
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Best climbing hangboard: Fingerboard training tools for beginners to experts

Smith PivLock Arena review
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Smith PivLock Arena review: Sunglasses for outdoor heroes

Lead trad better climb
Technique Tips

How to lead trad better – Eight top climbing tips

Pacsafe Adventuresafe X30 Backpack Review
Gear Tips

Pacsafe Venturesafe X30 Backpack Review

Primus micron trail stove review
Gear Tips

Primus Micron Trail Stove Review

Zlagpro fingerboard hangboard sloper units
Gear Tips

Best climbing hangboard: Fingerboard training tools for beginners to experts

As you’ll have noticed up your local bouldering wall, there are a plethora of climbing hangboard or ‘fingerboards’ bolted to walls of climbing gyms…

Montane Icarus Jacket review
Gear Tips

Montane Icarus jacket review: A winter warmer

The Montane Icarus has a story to tell. It might look like a standard issue high-street micro baffle jacket, but there’s a very good…

Bestclimbingapps
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Best Climbing Apps: Outdoor and training apps for iOS and Android

In spite of there being thousands of apps for Apple and Android devices, there are very few indeed that are actually helpful outdoors, where…

Smith PivLock Arena review
Gear Tips

Smith PivLock Arena review: Sunglasses for outdoor heroes

With that low autumn sunshine splashing into your eyes as you train outdoors, there’s still time to snap up some sunnies, and these outdoor…

Lead trad better climb
Technique Tips

How to lead trad better – Eight top climbing tips

Trad lead climbing is a tricky game balancing the pure physical climbing with the need to stop and handle a whole host of paraphernalia…

Pacsafe Adventuresafe X30 Backpack Review
Gear Tips

Pacsafe Venturesafe X30 Backpack Review

When is a rucksack not just a rucksack? When it’s Pacsafe, and you’re on the road, we’ve discovered. Check out our PacSafe Venturesafe X30…

Primus micron trail stove review
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Primus Micron Trail Stove Review

Primus make a good few stoves, and have strong pedigree on this front – so what’s this new lightweight gas effort all about? Read…

Elliot Brown Bloxworth Watch Review
Gear Tips

Elliot Brown Bloxworth Watch Review

On one level, writing an Elliot Brown Bloxworth review is an impossible task. A British brand with excellent credentials, the company’s credo is ‘Built to…

climbing tips summer training
Training Tips

Climbing tips: Are you ready for the summer?

Winter is (just) still with us in the mountains but as the daffodils sprout, our thoughts should be turning to the lighter and warmer…

Best outdoor gadgets 2017
Gear Tips

Best outdoor gadgets 2017: The hottest climbing tech this year

Every January the outdoor industry converges on a few trade shows to swap bad jokes, banter and get a flavour of the best outdoor…

AKU Serai GTX boots review
Gear Tips

AKU Serai GTX boots review: The ultimate lightweight ice boot?

There are hundreds of winter boots on the market, from crazy-light unlikely-looking beasts through to old skool massive leather numbers. This is a review of…

The Climbing Project
Technique Tips

The Climbing Project – and how to choose it

The project. Dread words for the keenest of climbers. We’ve all got a few unfinished ones hanging around, like that old bike in the…

montane cobra 25 rucksack review
Gear Tips

Montane Cobra 25 Rucksack Review

With Christmas over and festive food weighing heavily on the belly thoughts turn to heading out and shifting a few pounds in the mountains….

Montaine Alpine Pro Jacket review
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Montane Alpine Pro Jacket review

British gear brand Montane has gained a Gore-Tex licence, which is no small news as it’s the first new licence to be issued in…

Mammut El Cap climbing helmet review
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Mammut El Cap climbing helmet review

The Mammut El Cap climbing helmet comes in an enticing array of colours and has a small peak to keep the sun out of…

Leki Micro Vario Carbon review
Gear Tips

Leki Micro Vario Carbon review: Walking poles for climbers

These Leki walking poles are a bit of a revelation, and after weeks of testing we reckon they offer one of the best blends…

Steep Ice climbing tips
Technique Tips

Steep Ice climbing tips: Winter winning

Ice – mesmerising, bamboozling, intense, pumpy, awful? At some point in your ice climbing career you will most likely find a pitch that is…

Berghaus Extrem 7000 hoody fleece review
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Berghaus Extrem 7000 hoody fleece review

The Berghaus Extrem brand will be pretty familiar to many, and has turned out some excellent gear over the years. New for autumn 2016 is this lightweight Polartec…

How to Climb Outdoors
Technique Tips

Getting Started: How to Climb Outdoors – better.

Outdoor Instructor Robin Jeffery begins this introductory series with taking a look at the foundations of a good climbing day, in How to Climb…

Nordisk Venn sleeping mat review
Gear Tips

Nordisk Ven 2.5 sleeping mat review

There’s plenty of sleeping mats out there to choose from, but this little number from Nordisk delivers big on something very small indeed –…

brooks running clothes review
Gear Tips

Brooks running clothes review: Autumn 2016

As Autumn begins to draw in, it’s time to change up some of the running gear a little, and Brooks running new range has…

Suunto Spartan Ultra Review
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Suunto Spartan Ultra Review

The Suunto Spartan Ultra is the latest watch in Suunto’s lineup, and represents Suunto’s big leap into colour touchscreens to compete with Garmins 630…

Nordisk Halland 2 LW tent review
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Nordisk Halland 2 LW tent review

The premium tent market is a pretty crowded space, but the revamped Nordisk Halland 2 LW tent caught our eye with a simple design…

Best socks for walking
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Best socks for walking, running and climbing

Hunting down the best socks for walking, running or climbing is a pretty tough job – it’s a wide field indeed. However, after choosing…

peak district climbing stoney middleton
Training Tips

True Grit: Eight things you didn’t know about Peak District rock climbing

The Peak District is world famous for the quality of the climbing, and being a stones throw from the major cities of Sheffield, Manchester…

Finisterre duffel bag review
Gear Tips

Finisterre duffel bag review

What happens when surf meets dry land? The Finisterre 40L duffel bag is the lovechild of high-end surf brand Finisterre and Ortileb, purveyors of…

best altitude training tips
Technique Tips, Training Tips

Best altitude training tips for Alpine climbing

Getting in a little alpine dreaming? While you pore through the guides and plot the best Geneva transfers, here’s some of the best altitude…

Gear Tips

Black Diamond Vapor helmet review

The Black Diamond Vapor is superlight, airy and protective – have climbing helmets finally evolved? Read on to find out in our Black Diamond Vapor…

Rab Flashpoint Jacket waterproof review
Gear Tips

Rab Flashpoint Jacket waterproof review

The Rab Flashpoint Jacket is one of a new wave of very lightweight technical waterproof jackets, originally launched in 2015, and now updated for…

climbing shoe care
Technique Tips

Climbing shoe care, repair and modification tips

Climbing shoe care is often overlooked – until they get holed, too smelly and banished to the shed, or get dropped on a long…

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