Government U-Turn has Positive Prospects for Climbers:As of April next year the Ordnance Survey (OS) will be allowing free access to map data down to a scale of 1:10,000.The possibilities for climbers are quite profound, as websites such as UKC

Despite the torrential rain and floods in Cumbria, Kendal Mountain Festival 2009 was a big success. We will have a report later this week but first the winners of the two competitions, books and films, including a video of John

Lino Lacedelli has died aged 83, on November 20. He and Achille Compagnoni were the first team to summit K2 (8,611m) back in 1954.Lacedelli's ascent was accompanied by controversy as he and fellow climber Walter Bonatti argued and accused each

Scott Semple recently wrote a blog entry titled Is Sponsorship a Sin? in which he states his case that the wrong people are often sponsored and this is a bad thing:"Many of the athletes you often see in climbing magazines

The 2009 Kendal Mountain Festival opened last night and runs through to Sunday evening.Tickets are still available for many events, including film passes for all of day today, Saturday morning, and all day Sunday.Don't let the rain put you off.

Judging by the strength and depth of the literature on display at this year's Kendal Mountain Festival, the answer is an emphatic YES! There are events throughout the event celebrating some great literature, with live interviews, plus panel discussions and

In July we ran a competition to find a climber to feature on the UKClimbing.com sponsored page in climbing:10 Keith Sharples' annual calendar. See the winner and just who is on the front cover?

The winners of the lead category of the 2009 World Cup are Adam Ondra (Czech) and Johanna Ernst (Austria).Ondra won four out of six rounds, taking the lead title, the overall title and the final round for a great triple

In this clip from the forth coming film Welsh Connections we see British climbing legend Johnny Dawes do battle with pitch 4 of his girdle traverse of Scimitar Ridge, Llanberis Pass, North Wales.On being confronted by the large pendulum potential

UKC Contributor and general top bloke Tom Hutton has just won an award from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild (OWPG).His article Pining for the Fjords, published back in February in Adventure Travel magazine, scooped the 2009 award for excellence

Slovenian Alpinist Tomaz Humar has been found dead high on Langtang Lirung's South Face in Nepal.Tomaz Humar, a father of two, was one of the most successful super-alpinists of recent years with a number of difficult and dangerous solo ascents

As reported earlier on , Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman have succeeded on the previously unclimbed North face of Chang Himal.The 1800m North face of Chang Himal (aka Wedge Peak), was a well known target for super-alpinists after being featured

Keith Bradbury (aka Unclesomebody) has just released his latest film Between The Trees.The film documents the trip of a lifetime to Fontainebleau from the young bouldering sensation Tyler Landman. In a single trip Tyler seems to have ticked every hard

The classic Cloggy E1 Vember was named after the daughter of Mrs Williams who ran the Half-Way House cafe on the railway up Snowdon. Vember has recently passed away and UKC offer condolences to all who knew her.In this news

The Grit Flick competition was a great success. We had around 100 entries from which Alan James (the UKC Big Boss!) has chosen the best 10, each of whom win one of our Great Gritstone Goody bags worth £60. The

Walk of Life, the 21 minute film documenting James Pearson's ascent of the climb of the same name at Dyer's Lookout on the North Devon coast won the Best Film on Climbing film at Banff Mountain Festival.

Silvia Fitzpatrick reports on her blog that she has just completed her second F8b.Talking to DMM, Silvia said: "I had been trying Golpe de Calor - Heat Wave in Spanish - in the Chilam Balam Cave for six days, spread

Report by North Wales Bouldering:Seasoned campaigner, Chris Davies has added yet another hard first ascent to an already impressive roster of desperate problems at the newly developed Moel y Gest quarry boulders, near Porthmadog. A Life Aesthetic V13/8B is hidden

Ten Gritstone goody bags are up for grabs in this UKClimbing.com competition, Grit Flick Grit Quiz. Prizes are from Posing Productions, Marmot, DMM and Rockfax guidebooks. PLUS watch an exclusive clip of Lucy Creamer from the new DVD Grit Flick

British Alpinists Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman have succeeded on one of the 'great unclimbed faces' with their ascent of Chang Himal's (a.ka. Wedge Peak) 1800 metre north face in Nepal's Kanchenjunga Himal.