Peak bagging the Cuillin ridge on Scotland’s Isle of Skye

October 31, 2018 Trip reports andy hogarth, britain, cuillin ridge, hill walking, inaccessible pinnacle, isle of skye, munro bagging, munros, scotland, scrambling, sgurr alasdair, sgurr nan gillean 1 Comment

Our aim was to climb as many of the 11 Munros on the main Cuillin ridge as we could in a series of day hikes, including the infamous Inaccessible Pinnacle, the only Munro that’s a technical rock climb. But the weather forecast was dreadful, and I knew from experience that would make a big difference on these peaks.

The strange life and death of Kim Chang-ho

October 24, 2018 Reviews and tributes 8000m peaks, gurja himal, kim chang-ho, langtang, mountaineering disasters, nepal, obituaries, sea to summit 7 Comments

The Korean Kim Chang-bo is one of only a handful of climbers to have climbed all of the world’s 8,000m peaks. His ascent of Everest is one of the more unusual ones. But his extraordinary life has been overshadowed by the mystery of his death earlier this month.

An introduction to ExplorersWeb, the adventurers’ website on a new journey

October 17, 2018 Good causes exploration, explorersweb, gasherbrum, interviews, phil crampton, rowan white 1 Comment

ExplorersWeb has been one of the leading sources of news about adventurous expeditions for many years now. But as they say in the pub trade, it’s now under new management. This means that some important changes are taking place. There is a new team of editors and a new design, but this is just the start.

Banished to Room 101: the Inaccessible Pinnacle

October 10, 2018 Trip reports andy hogarth, britain, cuillin ridge, first ascents, hill walking, inaccessible pinnacle, isle of skye, munro bagging, munros, rock climbing, scotland 4 Comments

If you asked a group of UK hill walkers to nominate items for Room 101, some of them might suggest the Inaccessible Pinnacle, a narrow shark’s fin of rock that crowns the summit of Sgurr Dearg, a 978m mountain on the Isle of Skye in north-west Scotland.

The first ever successful Everesting of Everest

October 3, 2018 History cycling, everest, everesting, first ascents, himalayas, tibet 1 Comment

A Chinese cyclist has recently completed the first ever Everesting — where a cyclist repeatedly climbs the same hill until they’ve biked the height of Everest — on the side of Everest itself. It’s a story I first reported on a few months earlier.