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If you're planning a mountain-based expedition for next year you may wish to apply for the Nick Estcourt Award.

The BMC Youth Climbing Series is a popular and fun competition for young climbers of all abilities, with three regional rounds and a national final. The dates and venues are detailed below with online entry!

Denis Burdet and Stephan Siegrist (Switzerland), David Lama (Austria) and the American climber/photographer Robert Frost have made the second ascent of India's Cerro Kishtwar.

Sadly, Alan Blackshaw, past President of the BMC (1973-1976), died on Thursday 4 August 2011 at Raigmore hospital in Inverness

As part of our safety and good practice work in 2012, the BMC will be running a campaign to promote the benefits of helmets.

The BMC office will be closed for Christmas and New Year from midday on Friday 23 December and will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday 3 January.

Following on from last year's Welsh Assembly reception to celebrate mountaineering in Wales, officers and volunteers from the BMC and BMC Cymru met with the Welsh Minister for the Environment, Mr John Griffiths AM in order to pursue a number of issues relating to access.

The GB Junior team selection meeting was held on Sunday 11th December to decide the Junior GB Climbing Team for 2012.

Results of the open youth lead competition held on 10 December at Sunderland Wall.

The Second International "Trad" Climbing Meeting, organized by the Club Alpino Accademico Italiano (CAAI), will take place from the 16th-22nd September 2012.

An informal celebration of the life of George Band will be held on Tuesday 20th December at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

The BMC Yorkshire Area has elected Chris Wright as its new volunteer Hill Walking Representative.

The Independent Panel on Forestry set up in March of this year to advise Government on forestry and woodland policy, released a progress report yesterday outlining their current thinking on the future of our forested estates.

Neil Gresham is just one of a host of experts at next year's BMC Coaching Symposium.

It's International Mountain Day this Sunday, so why not take a moment to spare a thought for the mountains!

The BMC is delighted to have appointed Doug Scott CBE and Lord (Tony) Greaves as Patrons.

Sport England today published new participation figures which show that mountaineering is one of only 4 sports which has shown an increase in participation.

Coventry Mountaineering Club applied for, and received, funding from the BMC for its members to get some skills training from a Mountaineering Instructor. This is what they did with the grant from the BMC.

Round 6 of the BMC Leading Ladder starts Saturday 10 December.

The BMC held a Lakes winter ethics debate on Wed 30th Nov at Hawkeshead Brewery and a lively evening was had by all.