BMC News

Check out the latest additions to the shop, as well as some special offers for the month of September.

It seems climbing is hitting the big and small screens in a big way nowadays.

An agreement has been reached for climbing at Llanymynech, involving the BMC, local climbers and the Montgomeryshire and Shropshire Wildlife Trusts.

The BMC’s 2010 Gower Climbing Festival (10th – 12th September) is an opportunity for you to experience what the Gower peninsula has to offer on its limestone cliffs and beautiful beaches. There’s plenty of climbing for everyone, with trad routes ranging from Diff to the high Extremes, sport routes from Fr6a+ to Fr8a, and a handful of bouldering areas too.

The North Wales Spine Clinic now offers BMC members a 50% discount on the initial consultation and examination.

Rob Adie, the BMC Climbing Walls and Competitions Officer, is currently live on the UKC Forums answering questions on climbing competitions and climbing wall issues.

Dan Clark and Matt Traver received grant aid from the BMC, MEF and Welsh Sports Association for a joint Anglo-American expedition to the little visited Djangart Range of Kyrghyzstan. The result was three fine first ascents of alpine peaks up to TD- in standard.

Watch top climbers in action via a live video stream from the Catalan Climbing Championship in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) on Saturday 4 September.

Adventure Peaks will be opening a new climbing wall in October 2010 as part of an exciting new development in Ambleside.

With the winter of 2010 going down in history as one of the most frenzied periods ever of winter climbing in Snowdonia, concern was raised about the possible impact of winter mountaineering on some of the protected plants and habitats that are found on some of the most well used and popular winter climbing venues.

The much talked about Stoney Middleton Revival is finally going to take place over the weekend of 11-12 September.

The Italian-Swiss team of Simon Gietl, Daniel Kopp, Roger Schali and photographer/climber Thomas Ulrich have made the first ascent of a spectacular, huge free rock route on the East Coast of Greenland.

The third British expedition to visit Afghanistan this summer has returned to the UK, having enjoyed incredible hospitality from the local population and made two first ascents towards the eastern end of the Wakhan Corridor.

Supported by grants from the BMC and MEF, Stuart Howard and Dave Swinburne have recently made three exploratory first ascents in the Wrangell-St Elias Range of Alaska.

Supported by an expedition grant from the BMC, Tony Barton and Tom Chamberlain have made the first ascent of the South West Face of Huaguruncho, a rarely-visited 5,730m summit in Peru.

Blackpool Climbing Towers are hosting a Drytooling Event on 17-19 September 2010.

Multi-award winning climbing film The Asgard Project is scheduled for TV broadcast in the UK on 26 September.

The Belgian climber and mountaineer Chloé Graftiaux has been tragically killed when a hold broke while descending easy ground on l'aiguille Noire de Peutrey on the south side of Mont Blanc

The second round of the European Youth Series took place in Vienna in mid-August and our team members put in some tremendous performances.

The owner of Honister Slate Mines has recently submitted a controversial application for a 1.2km zip wire ride, from Fleetwith Pike, at the head of the Buttermere valley, to the mines at Honister.