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Killarney Mountain Festival
First Ever Killarney Mountain Festival Recommend this goes in the calendar for next year. Twinned with the Kendal Mountain Festival, it had lots of outdoor films ( full length and short) in the ...
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Escape from the Beast
It’s usual for the club to arrange a sport climbing trip to Spain in march or February but this year was a little different, for me at least. An old friend had returned from India after ten ...
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The thing about ice climbing..
George, Finbarr and self set off to Cogne via Ryanair and Sicily Car hire, and it all went quite smoothly, meeting Jack Bergin, (who had driven out), within an hour of our arrival. George, a veteran ...
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Kyrgyzstan – Endless
The Jetim Bel range is remote and little visited by outsiders, never mind climbers. So remote are these areas that only the very highest peaks are named. Nomadic herders, tending horses, cattle and ...
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Irish Sikkim Expedition, a
Why did I go? I knew the terrain was tough, the weather patterns unhelpful, and there would be long periods in the sleeping bags between short periods of euphoria. Maybe I had to get the ...
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Sunday 2nd Oct 2016 While the CCC were having their AGM and meet in West Donegal (Apologies sent), the sun shone on Malin Head and there was wall to wall blue sky. I had a couple of hours to spend ...
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Chamonix fun in the sun
Chamonix: a mecca for skiers, mountain bikers, trail runners and above all climbers. PJ and I had missed out on climbing there with the MI meet there a few years ago and again last year when ...
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In Praise of Offwidths and
Adrspach Five of us flew Ryanair Dublin to Wroclau, in Poland, to be met by Ivan and Matty, and escorted the 100km drive to a cottage he had rented in the middle of the village of Adrapach, just ...
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