Alan Halewood was out on Ben Nevis yesterday and found "Almost a foot of soft snow lying at the summit." He climbed Tower Ridge in snowy conditions. Here are some photos of his ascent to get you in the mood

This year's climbing films range in price from £12.99 right up to the top bar of £19.99. Why?"I've slowly come to the view that £20 is simply too much to pay for a climbing film, even for the best ones."Jack

James Kassay has repeated Sleepy Rave (Font 8C) in the Hollow Mountain cave, Grampians, Australia.The endurance boulder problem links three Font 8A+ problems together and is part of the very famous boulder problem The Wheel of Life (Font 8C+).

The Japanese gritstone sensation Toru Nakajima has climbed Meta Force (F8c+) at Horai, Japan. The youngster has just celebrated his 16th birthday.Horai is a volcanic-tuff climbing area situated four hours south of Tokyo, near Nagoya and is home to excellent

It's November. The nights are drawing in and it's time to get ready for winter.If you are in need of some inspiration, then you have come to the right place. This week is a winter feast on UKClimbing.com with videos,

If we feature a video on UKClimbing.com in a couple of days it can be watched between 2,000 and 10,000 times depending on what the video is about. Want a career making films or video adverts, or just want to

Jerry Moffatt and Niall Grimes' book, Revelations — Jerry Moffatt has won the prestigious Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. The Mountain Literature Award was given to Beyond the Mountain by Steve House.The Banff Mountain Festival is held

Nico Favresse, Sean Villanueva, Stephane Hanssens, Olivier Favresse and Silvia Vidal recently had an amazing trip to Baffin Island.The team have been busy putting together a film of their antics and the trailer is in this news item.

In this short video Max Zolotukhin attempts to highball / solo Supernova (F8c) at Rumney, New Hampshire, USA.It goes wrong and Max takes the fall, ending up in hospital.

Andy Marshall has climbed a new route on the Bingagapple area of Fairhead, Northern Ireland.The Dark Side (E8 6c) takes the obvious orange wall right of the classic E4 Track of the Cat.Commenting on the photography and climbing website Hillerscapes,

Dan Beall has made the 3rd ascent and the first ground-up ascent of Luminance (V10/11) in Bishop, California, USA.The line features hard climbing above a horrific landing. The sloping rock shelf below the problem gives way to a boulder-strewn ravine

If you are free the weekend of 6/7th February 2010 and want to learn some winter walking and mountaineering skills at Glenmore Lodge, plus get kitted out in Marmot winter gear, this competition may be of interest to you. There

16 year old Adam Ondra has climbed what he considers to be his hardest route yet.The new line, which he has graded F9a+/b, is an extension of the existing route Marina (F8c/+) in Sardinia and is now named Marina Superstar.Full

Once again UK guidebooks put in a good show at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Two of the five 'Exposition' finalists are from the UK.The UK finalists are Scottish Winter Climbs, (Andy Nisbet, Rab Anderson and Simon Richardson published by

Gritstone guardian Graham Hoey dropped us a line at UKClimbing.com to bring some recent goings on at Stanage to our attention..."As you can see the brushing was pretty thorough..." remarked Graham.Adam Long had more to say:"To quote Bernard Manning: It's

Yorkshire based climber Jenny Woodward has climbed Predator, the classic F8b at Malham cove, North Yorkshire.Jenny's ascent of this route is the first by a woman."I actually did less moves than taller people, which must be a first!"

Sunday 18 October saw the second round of the SIBL at Evolution Climbing Centre in Crowborough. This round saw the usually mixture of wacky and serious problems including a lie-down start and one that included a swing on a rock

A blast from the past this week. This pre-YouTube video is of Catherine Destiville soloing in Mali.

Steve McClure is on the TV next Monday and has had a great week at Malham. In this report he has some interesting things to say about time off from climbing.Also Jenny Woodward climbs F8b, Jordan Buys climbs F8b+ and

Following on from Sam Davenhall's second ascent of Kaizen at Woodwell, South Lakes (See UKC News), we have two historical photographs of first ascentionist John Gaskins repeating the problem for the camera just after his first ascent.The photos are courtesy