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Local Climbs: The Quarryman
In the first of our series of Local Climbs, Angus Kille tackles the iconic Quarryman for a big-wall ...
Time to Reminisce – Climbing Norway’s National Mountain
My home is Bergen, Norway – otherwise known as the city between the seven mountains. It is here that...
Mountain Guiding During COVID-19
This winter season was about guiding people in the mountains all around the world. I am a full-time ...

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Local Climbs: The Quarryman

In the first of our series of Local Climbs, Angus Kille tackles the iconic Quarryman for a big-wall training challenge just five miles from home. Aft...

Time to Reminisce – Climbing Norway’s National Mountain

My home is Bergen, Norway – otherwise known as the city between the seven mountains. It is here that I grew up with a family who took me to the mounta...

Mountain Guiding During COVID-19

This winter season was about guiding people in the mountains all around the world. I am a full-time mountain guide and had a lot of exciting plans. Un...

The Big Three – Climbing in South Island

I’m not a big fan of waking up early, yet I seem to have chosen a lifestyle and career where my phone alarm has seven different wake-up calls set betw...

Tom Randall - Brown Cows Over Utah

Crack climbing, for me, has been all about performance for a really long time. I’ve been on that incessant drive to push my own standards, establish t...

Dutch Expedition Academy: Coping During COVID-19

In self-isolation for over two weeks now, it is strange to remember what I was doing exactly one month ago. Monday morning, 5 A.M. We had just woken u...

Home Climbing Exercises with Lattice Training

Since getting out to the crag or your local climbing wall isn’t possible at the moment, we’ve compiled some of the great climbing training...

Catalonia - A Home Away From Home

One of the things I love about climbing is that it takes you to some amazing locations. I’ve been lucky enough to climb throughout Europe as well as i...

A Runner’s Guide to Not Running

Why do you run? Four words that for me would be the start of a river of reasons that could eventually flood into a book. This is probably the same for...

Andrea Mason - Sea to Summit Challenge

On Monday 9th September 2019 I set out to achieve what most people thought would be impossible: swim 34km across the English Channel, cycle 900km acro...

Climbing, Life and Community During the Pandemic

Suddenly our lives are turned upside down. The more events accelerate around the globe with the spread of COVID-19, the more our everyday life is slow...

Greg Boswell - Ice Climbing in Lofoten

At the end of January, Jeff Mercier and I met up in the north of Norway for two weeks of hunting winter climbs above the Arctic Circle. Two seasons ag...

Rab at Banff Mountain Film Festival 2019

The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is North America’s largest mountain festival. Taking place between October 26th and November 3rd, the...

The Art of “Unambitious Ambition”

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...

Baffin Island Expedition - Part 2

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 ...

Baffin Island Expedition - Part 1

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...

The Long Road Home

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 ...

Skiing Antarctica

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...

Skiing Spantik & Nanga Parbat

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 ...

Three Peaks Cycling Challenge

“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...

Is Climbing Making You Happy?

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...

Can You Be A Pro in Two Sports?

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...

Living On Hard Ice

“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...

Training Through Illness

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...

Sea to Summit Extreme

‘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 ...

Wadi Rum

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...

Rab Young Alpinists 2019

“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...

Sylvain Thiabaud - Winter Climbing 2018/19

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...

Zanskar Expedition

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 ...

Bronwyn Hodgins - Freerider

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 Rab CWIF 2019 - Highlights

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...

Search for Star Dust

It’s 11pm in the central Argentinean Andes. I’m seated cross legged at 4000m attempting to construct an Avro Lancastrian model aeroplane by the light ...

Project 282 - Part Two

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...

Project 282 - Part One

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...

49° South: Where Dreams Still Live

Patagonia is an intense place. Intense because of its extreme and capricious weather. Intense due to its disproportionate dimensions, both vertical an...

Festival d'escalade trad pour les femmes (Women's Trad Festival)

Le Festival d’escalade trad pour les femmes est un week-end d’escalade traditionnelle organisé dans le Peak District, dans le but d’...

H17 Expedition

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...

Remarkables Festival

For anyone unfamiliar with the region, New Zealand is probably best known in recent times as Middle Earth. An association created when these dramatic ...

Illiniza Sur

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 ...

Inside Design: Rock Range

Senior Clothing Designer Kate Ennis is the driving force behind one of our most vibrant collections – the Rock Range. Combining a wealth of desi...

49° South: Where Dreams Still Live

Patagonia is an intense place. Intense because of its extreme and capricious weather. Intense due to its disproportionate dimensions, both vertical an...

Women’s Trad Festival 2018 Report

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 ...

Jacob Cook - Welcome to the Wack

“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...

Jacob Cook - Welcome to the Wack

“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...

Inside Design: Flashpoint 2 Jacket

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...

Inside Design: Flashpoint 2 Jacket

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...

A British First Ascent in the Garhwal Himalaya

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...

A British First Ascent in the Garhwal Himalaya

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...

Finnmark and The Origins of Skiing

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...

Finnmark and The Origins of Skiing

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...