FRA DVD/Video

This has just come through, not watched it all yet. Yes, Edale Skyline was that atrocious….The usual format, loads and loads of mentions for DPFR, interviews with the front people. To me they’re good to look back on when it’s depths of winter. £15 from PWT Productions, Sedgwick, Kendal, LA80JL Read more

Abandoned Farm

    Proof indeed, Phil and Izzie, with photographer. If you’e going from King’s Tree round to the Westend Valley, there are paths through the woods to avoid the road. At 1560093167 are the ruins of Banktop Farm – don’t know anything more about its history, though. New competition coming soon.

Peter Harding Obituary

This  is worth a read, from the Telegraph – written by someone who knows their stuff. Of course I never knew him, but his climbs have a strong reputation – Demon Rib on Black Rocks, Suicide Wall on Cratcliffe, Goliath’s Groove, Cave Innominate finish on Stanage, Spectre on the Grochan, Read more

Ben Nevis Race

Pete Gorvett sends, that “BBC2 Scotland runs “The Adventure Show”.  They have shown a program on the Ben Nevis race, which can be downloaded from the BBC web site (see the end of this part of the OMM forum: http://www.theomm.com/forum/index.php?topic=463.0). It needs BBC’s  iPlayer, which has just taken me nearly an hour to Read more