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The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is North America’s largest mountain festival. Takin...
Writing a review about my 2019 climbing season sounded pretty simple to me at first. What could be e...
We charge downstream in our little red packraft. The water is churning, pumping! I’m in the stern; J...
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The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is North America’s largest mountain festival. Taking place between October 26th and November 3rd, the...
Writing a review about my 2019 climbing season sounded pretty simple to me at first. What could be easier than talking about what you have experienced...
We charge downstream in our little red packraft. The water is churning, pumping! I’m in the stern; Jacob kneels in my bow. It’s tough to see the line ...
This summer Jacob, Thor, Zack and myself spent six weeks on Baffin Island, in the far northeast corner of Canada and about 200 miles across the Bay fr...
When I topped off the gas tank and sped out of New Hampshire on April 2nd, I tightly gripped the wheel, smiling ear to ear and with a 5,500 mile gaze ...
Last November Joe Doherty became the first Scout in the world to ski to the South Pole and kite ski back. The journey began from the Messner Start (80...
In our 70s, pink candy-coloured Land Cruiser, it looks more like heading out from a summer camp. Our driver, as comfortable behind the wheel as he is ...
“I started hallucinating from what was a 22 hour day hearing noises, seeing figures and abandoned kit but Paul assured me they were just rocks. When w...
It is mid-February. I am lying in a hammock in France. To be precise, I am in ‘Le Lot’, a rural area in central France and my hammock is strung betwee...
This year has been one of the hardest but also one of the most interesting of my last 10 years as a professional athlete. As many of you who are readi...
“This isn’t the forest or even the snow, there are no rocks, no trails or footprints, no plants or flowers- this is ice. And guess what: it chan...
How do you face not being able to do the sport you love? Rab athlete Jules Littlefair and PR Co-ordinator Jen Scotney have both suffered periods of il...
‘Wow, I feel great, they must have given me some awesome painkillers’ The nurse is calling my name ‘Andrea, Andrea.’ My eyes start to open and I look ...
Three hundred feet up the wall I weighted my toes on dime-sized sandstone edges. I was reminded of my ballet days on pointe — the pain was tortu...
“As we made fresh tracks up the glacier in the pitch dark of 3am and finally as we reached the summit the sun crested up over the picturesque mountain...
This winter I wanted to climb, to climb rock only! I spent a lot of time in the mountains the past seasons working as a mountain guide and this fall I...
One of the amazing things about being a young alpinist from a country with a strong climbing tradition is that with an average internet connection, a ...
On November 8th 2018, I stood on the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite, California, after free climbing the route Freerider over 5 days. With Jacob sup...
The 13th annual Climbing Works International Festival recently took place in the city of Sheffield, home to the UK’s largest population of climbers an...
It’s 11pm in the central Argentinean Andes. I’m seated cross legged at 4000m attempting to construct an Avro Lancasterian model aeroplane by the light...
The Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye strikes fear into the hearts of many would-be Munroists, and I was certainly amongst them. The infamous Inaccess...
There is an old Chinese proverb which says that a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. This became something that I thought about many ti...
Patagonia is an intense place. Intense because of its extreme and capricious weather. Intense due to its disproportionate dimensions, both vertical an...
Le Festival d’escalade trad pour les femmes est un week-end d’escalade traditionnelle organisé dans le Peak District, dans le but d’...
At the end of August, Rab athlete Nasim Eshqi and Cristina Pogacean headed to the Zanskar region of Jammu and Kashmir in India to attempt to climb H17...
For anyone unfamiliar with the region, New Zealand is probably best known in recent times as Middle Earth. An association created when these dramatic ...
At 5,263m Illiniza Sur is Ecuador’s 6th highest mountain, and is considered one of the country’s more technically challenging peaks. Often overlooked ...
Senior Clothing Designer Kate Ennis is the driving force behind one of our most vibrant collections – the Rock Range. Combining a wealth of desi...
On the first weekend of August, nearly 200 climbers from all over the UK (as well as several lucky competition winners from Germany!) gathered in the ...
“So is this what it feels like to be committed?” asked Mike. We were about two-thirds of the way up the North-East Buttress of Mount Slesse in BC, Can...
Behind every great product is a great designer, and the Flashpoint 2 waterproof jacket is a prime example. Rab Product Designer Ben Manwaring talks us...
In an 8 day round-trip, the British team of Malcolm Bass, Guy Buckingham and Paul Figg have made the successful first ascent of a new line on Janhukot...
April 2018 and it’s rapidly approaching the end of the winter guiding season in the French Alps. This winter has been the best in many years, with a r...
I’m safely home, shattered but elated; it’s day eleven of a run of fourteen days’ work. It’s 7 pm and dark as I empty my soaking and...
Phew! WE DID IT. After 97 hours and 31 minutes, 132.4 miles, and 40,000ft of vertical gain, we can now say that we’ve completed the Rainier Infinity L...
I’m four turns into my run and I’ve just cleared the steepest convexity on the slope when I see the crack shoot out from my ski tips across the slope....
It’s 5.30 in the morning and I can hear the quiet yet obtrusive sound of my watch alarm beeping next to my pillow. I am cocooned into the comfor...
Being comfortable in the hills and mountains of the UK can be a bit of a dark art. As your work rate and the weather vary during the day, your body an...
With temperatures hovering around zero and the limestone crags of the UK still dripping with the last of the winter weather, early Spring has become a...
There could not have been more appropriate weather for The Climbers Shop in Stony Stratford to launch as an Expedition Stockists. With a Siberian blas...
