“Final Proofs? Sure, they’re over there on the table”. Music to the ears of anyone involved in print media projects. Within minutes they were signed-off and Climbing:2012 was committed to the press…

It’s a strange feeling really; a milli second before it was an ‘open project’ and then it was ‘closed’. Gone in the blink of an eye. Within days Climbing:2012 will be an entity; the gestation over. It’s the eighth consecutive climbing calendar that I’ve published and I can tell you now that it’s been totally re-designed for 2012 and we think it’s a killer!

I’ll be doing a full exposé real soon but meanwhile the page you see below is the poster shot, an image of a certain Steve McClure on-sighting a certain E8 in the Lake District of which you will already have read….