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Kingshott Mountaineering Col Kingshott is an MCI award holder, WMCI Trainee & member of the AMI.

Routes in Scotland seem to be busier now than few years ago. and I headed up early (0500 up, 0600 start) to Ben Nevis t...
07/03/2026

Routes in Scotland seem to be busier now than few years ago. and I headed up early (0500 up, 0600 start) to Ben Nevis to climb the least busy route from the Observatory Gully area, not early enough!

There were queues on all major routes, I’ve climbed most of the ones that were in, Ryan wanted to climb the uber classic Point 5 (I last did this in 2013), so we joined the back of the queue. Had a lovely social day, getting battered by spindrift and enjoying the views. Thankful that we weren’t in the Tower Ridge train! A bonus of being last up the route is the outstandingly beautiful Ben Nevis sunset, is there a better view in the whole of the U.K.?

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Photos are a bit rubbish, but the day was awesome. Smiths Gully has been on my wishlist forever, rarely in condition, an...
14/02/2026

Photos are a bit rubbish, but the day was awesome. Smiths Gully has been on my wishlist forever, rarely in condition, and never when I’ve been up here. Brilliant route, probably worth the wait. did amazingly well on only her 5th winter route ever 🤣💪🏻.

Got back last night from a brilliant week skiing in Chamonix with and and the Bettridge’s. We began with an overnight...
04/01/2026

Got back last night from a brilliant week skiing in Chamonix with and and the Bettridge’s.

We began with an overnight stay in Reims, to visit the 3rd largest Christmas market in France, before continuing onwards to Chamonix. Driving over for the first time 🤮.

Conditions weren’t amazing, some more snow needed really. Pistes were fine, if a little icey, but lift accessed off-piste was very limited. Lindsay and Alistair are both brilliant skiers now, so were smashing round everything with confidence and style. Cat (on her second proper week of skiing) did amazingly well, particularly on the day at Les Grandes Montets in the off-piste, and icey lower slopes, then at Les Houches on the classic black run The Khadahar.

Already planning for our next trip, hopefully be getting all 3 of them into some ski touring and back-country skiing in the very near future.

I need to get back to posting some pictures of our days out again. and I managed to get a few amazing days out in the L...
27/11/2025

I need to get back to posting some pictures of our days out again. and I managed to get a few amazing days out in the Lakes and Scotland over the last week. Some brilliant weather on Helvellyn, followed by 2 days of testing conditions for Cat in the Northern Corries, as she learns about being in the winter mountains. A lap of the Northern Corries onto Cairn Gorm on the first day, Aladdins Mirror Direct (first ice route) on the second day, both in strong wind, low viz and spindrift. Last day was an absolute gift, zero wind, then blue skies and a beautiful sunset, what a day for her first mixed route (Fingers Ridge) in heavy rime.

Cat’s performance through all these days was amazing (Luna did well in the Lakes too!). Brilliant to have some early winter days in preparation for the season ahead. Hopefully a new winter convert 😊.

I’ll post a wrap up of our Hard Rock journey for 2025 soon as well.

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We will remember them.
09/11/2025

We will remember them.

Managed to dodge the frustrating weather to add a (nother) new route/link-up at Warton Main this afternoon. Deceptive Be...
16/09/2025

Managed to dodge the frustrating weather to add a (nother) new route/link-up at Warton Main this afternoon. Deceptive Bends Direct doesn’t exist anymore, due to poor quality rock on the lower arete, so this is an updated version. Deceptively Straight links the start of Seven Cities into the end of the traverse of Deceptive Bends. A quality direct version, and worth noting as a separate route. Rock was lovely and warm in the sunshine today, this slab dries very quickly as well (read it’s climbable year round). E2, 5c probably. Thanks for the belay 😊. There are still more new routes to be had here…..watch this space.

50m single pitch slab routes, with a 1 minute approach. What’s not to like? 😊🙏❤️



I haven’t been posting much recently, so will do a catch up post soon. I’m just back from an amazing couple of days in S...
20/08/2025

I haven’t been posting much recently, so will do a catch up post soon. I’m just back from an amazing couple of days in Scotland when some unexpected time off work coincided with an outstanding weather window.

Soloing the full traverse of The Cuillin Ridge has been on my wishlist for probably 20 years! A few attempts were planned, but weather always got in the way. Not this time. I drove up and managed 3hrs broken sleep (midges!) before a 0230hrs alarm. Left the Glenbrittle carpark at 0310hrs headed for Gars Beinn, I managed to reach the top in time for an amazing sunrise and full view of what lay ahead. I had been on some of the summits in middle section of the ridge, but N & S were new to me. Complex route finding, abseils, climbs and all the Munros ticked made for one of the best days out ever. I was flying along until I ran out of water and had to start rationing it 😬! 15hrs 45mins from Glenbrittle to Sligagachan is fine by me 😊. Another Classic Rock tick, probably the best.

Next day was much shorter, but equally awesome. Conival and Ben More Assynt, tops off all day 😎😎. 170 Munros now.

When Scotland is good, it equal to anywhere in the world. It was definitely a world class couple of days that will last in my memories forever.

From the sublime to the frustrating! U.K. summertime is certainly a constant challenge 🤣. An amazing evening at Brimham ...
24/06/2025

From the sublime to the frustrating! U.K. summertime is certainly a constant challenge 🤣. An amazing evening at Brimham Rocks with last week, followed by a showery and thundery weekend in Wales with . Pete and I managed to climb The Grooves in between heavy rain showers, then got caught behind an extremely slow group on Main Wall (they were on P4 when we started!). On the last pitch of Main Wall there was thunder & lightning which increased the tension a little! A hard & classic day. Bailed on Saturday night to miss traffic and weather. Will get on Great Wall one day 😞.

2 very different weather days out climbing this week. Warton Main on the best slab in Lancs on Tuesday, then Gouther tod...
15/06/2025

2 very different weather days out climbing this week. Warton Main on the best slab in Lancs on Tuesday, then Gouther today, on one of the best slabs in the Lakes. Sun on Tuesday, mizzly rain today 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣. Both brilliant days though.

Fear & Loafing and Armalite at Raven Crag with (hardly climbed this year, warm up on 5a!) this evening. Top evening, th...
21/05/2025

Fear & Loafing and Armalite at Raven Crag with (hardly climbed this year, warm up on 5a!) this evening. Top evening, thank you. I only read about Armalite a week or so ago, happy to have ticked it this evening. It felt good being on my preferred style of route (slabs & walls) for a change 😊🤣.

Catch up on a brilliant few days climbing with continuing my Hard Rock quest. Thank you for your continued support, cli...
15/05/2025

Catch up on a brilliant few days climbing with continuing my Hard Rock quest. Thank you for your continued support, climbing some really tough pitches, and just being an awesome partner ❤️. Climbing HR routes sometimes takes more than just turning up and climbing. Routes can be neglected, have awkward conditions or just need a bit of planning. I really enjoy the experience of climbing routes with historical value and the huge variety of climbing styles and locations. It’s a great experience for a ‘weekend warrior’. Malham and N Wales in this exceptional spell of weather. I think it took 6 visits over a few years to tick Cenotaph Corner, always weather! Other routes are Carnage, Vember and Great Bow Combination. Just managed to sneak into the top 20 on the UKC leaderboard as well 😊. I love all climbing, but also like the challenge of following lists.

First time climbing at Pavey Ark today, with .woodward and . Classic link up of Capella and Golden Slipper, followed by...
03/05/2025

First time climbing at Pavey Ark today, with .woodward and . Classic link up of Capella and Golden Slipper, followed by Crescent Slab. Top day out, looking forward to going back 😊.

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