On the hottest day of the year so far, Malham was a veritable white-hot caldron of limestone yesterday. The sky was a cloudless deep azure blue, the wind conspicuous by its absence and the crag was almost bone dry...   more »

I’ve spend pretty much all the 2008/09winter out night-time bouldering both for pleasure (yes I know that sounds perverse!) and to pull together Night Raiders, an illustrated piece published in Climber Apl|09.   more »

Though I say it myself, I’m chuffed with the front cover of February’s edition of Climber which features an image of mine of Ben Bransby on the second ground-up (third overall) ascent of James Pearson’s Burbage North testpiece, The Promise...   more »

So hands up who didn’t suffer over Chrimbal from an excess of turkey, mince pie, chocolate and festive beverages? The question is though did you get out and get some action in?   more »

Today, the Brit Grit Boys staged the start of the fight back in the wake of the recent Team America onslaught. In a stunning ground-up effort over the weekend a trio of well-known upwardly mobile gents laid siege on The Promise, James Pearson’s Burbage North test-piece   more »

climbing:09 has been shipping out for nearly two weeks now and feedback has been coming back in…   more »

Following the tsunami that blasted Raven Tor on Tuesday last, it was business as usual there today – or was it? The usual bunch of Saturday Snorers gathered just after nine and it seemed as though we were in for a rare treat...   more »

Printworks in Sheffield, are well on with the business of printing, collating, folding, binding and shrink-wrapping half a tonne or so of calendars and year planners/posters. The latest eta for climbing:09 and the 2009 Year Planner/Poster is that it will be back and ready to roll out...   more »

Yesterday a tsunami blasted Raven Tor in the Peak District. I refer, not to something generated by the weather, but to top American climber, Mr David Graham who is currently in the UK as part of his European lecture tour. On one of the soggiest days so far this autumn, Dave Graham blew into the Tor...   more »

Portland a new definitive guide to the climbing at Portland and Lulworth has just been published by the Climbers’ Club. ...   more »

Rachael Crewe, a 22 year-old graduate ex-Nottingham Uni, has scooped the top prize in the ‘Be in my calendar competition’ ...   more »

Top UK climbing website, www.UKClimbing.com are sponsoring a page in climbing:09, next year’s climbing calendar, and YOU to appear on ...   more »

KSP is delighted to have supplied images to Tick Tock Publications for their latest title in the rather nice ‘learn ...   more »

Take an uber enthusiastic event organiser and various sponsors together with a couple of dozen exhibitors and retailers, some ‘try-me’ sports providers, a wacky reverse-bungie-jump rig, many of the best boulderers in the country, a collection of wanabee Peter Pans and put them all into a town park in the midst of the wettest year on record for some time and what do you have...?    more »

Steve McClure, one of the UK’s best known and highest performing rock climbers, has just sent the third ascent of ...   more »

peak district : climbing, a new selected guide to the best easy-grade climbing in the Peak District, has just been published by Vertebrate Publishing. KSP was pleased to supply the majority of the crag images for the guide as well as number of action and incidental shots...   more »

From all the entries submitted to a recent photo competition on Cloud News, an emerging News and Picture Agency specialising in elemental photography, my submission – titled Northern Skies...   more »

I jumped onto the sport climbing band-wagon shortly after it started rolling in the mid 80’s and, save for winter/spring bouldering forays and the odd ‘away-day’ on the grit or in the mountains, I’ve been sport climbing ever since. Burning considerable midnight oil in the process, I eventually managed to shoe-horn as many tips and techniques that I’ve not forgotten into...   more »

Two brand-spanking new DVD’s hit the shelves just in time for Xmas; Psyche from Posing Productions (a.ka. Alastair Lee) and Hard XS from Slackjaw (a.k.a. Richard Heap and Ben Pritchard). I was delighted to collaborate with both film makers last year such that viewers of said films can see bits of yours truly featured in both productions…   more »