So said Alex Caulfield after he’d been given a toolkit of simple efficient techniques for staying safe and solving problems, on our Rope Tricks & Rescues for SPA & Beyond workshop in April this year. I have typically seen three groups of people who benefit from a workshop like this:
Read MoreTake them yourself on your smartphone and hope that at least some of them are in focus and good enough to use?
Clip your camera onto your harness in the morning, and find it still there when you take your gear off at the end of the day, so get your clients together for a quick snap before they take their climbing gear off?
Give your phone or camera to one of the clients and give them the job of team photographer?
Read MoreWallowbarrow is a splendid valley crag providing a selection of routes to accommodate most tastes. Offering fast-drying wall climbing on clean and solid rhyolite, it is a popular refuge for climbers when the higher crags are wet. Called Low Crag on OS maps, it is anything but. An array of steep buttresses forming a mountain in itself, it has an appropriately precipitous skyline. It further enhances its impregnable air by overlooking woods of silver birch and oak carpeted with bracken.
Taken from the 1993 edition of the FRCC guide to Dow, Duddon and Slate
One of the best things about my job is the variety of the work. In a two-week period in June, this was my work schedule:
Last week I met Elved and his partner Claire. Elved lost his lower leg a couple of years ago, as a result of being caught in a rock fall whilst climbing. Claire has a fear of heights, and understandable apprehension of climbing again after Elved’s accident.
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