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• Todd Skinner Dies in Rappel Accident:UPDATED >> Last updated: 15:59
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UK Climbing Articles

• Ten Ways To Succeed on a Trad Route by Hazel Findlay >>  Success in climbing can be hard to quantify. It can be difficult to ascertain exactly why you managed to get up that last hard route. What can be easier to pinpoint is why you fell off. In this article, Hazel Findlay, one of Britain's top climbers, takes an upside down look at succeeding on trad routes - with her top ten reasons for failure.
• Wild Country Crack School Part 3 - Fist Cracks >>  In this, the third episode of a six part video series, crack addict Tom Randall teaches us everything we need to know about fist cracks. How's your jamming? Not too good? Get to Crack School!
• Destination Guide: Los Mallos de Riglos >>  Paul Bennet gives us the lowdown on the famous conglomerate towers of Riglos, Spain. "When the nearby tufa paradise of Rodellar is suffering from seepage (or just simply for a change of scene), climbers flock to the 300m orange towers for something a little different, and Riglos is certainly that..."

UK Climbing News

• La Guerre des nerfs, 9a, by Belhaj >>  Said Belhaj, from Sweden, has made what should be the 4th ascent of Pierre Soulé's La Guerre des nerfs, 9a, at La Verrière in France. According to Said, the route can be described as a hard 8c followed by an 8b/+, with the hardest single move being a big move from a crap left hand pinch, via an intermediate, to a better right hand pinch, where a foot wedged between two tufas pulls you in the wrong direction. On his third short trip there, he pulled through and did it. Here's a video from...
• Climbing on CBBC Tonight at 6pm >>  Teenage television celebrity Richard Wisker, perhaps best known for his role as Liam O'Donovan in Tracy Beaker Returns, gets his first taste of climbing in CBBC's 'Friday Download' show this week. Wisker is put through his paces at The Westway climbing wall in London, by Junior GB team members Buster Martin and Molly Thompson-Smith - who were both impressed with his efforts. The programme goes out at 6pm today (May 18) and is repeated at 9am the following Sunday. It will also be on...
• BMC Need Help TODAY - Facebook Campaign >>  The BMC are looking to get more Facebook fans by 4pm this afternoon. If they reach 10,000 then they are going to donate £1000 to Porter's Progress, a charity that we at UKC think is a worthy cause.

UK Climbing Photos

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UrbanClimberMag.tv

• 505 by:Tom Ellis >> Highlights of bouldering in the Sandia Mountains just above the city of Albuquerque New Mexico
• Two from the Creek by:DenverBouldering >> Justin Jaeger on two problems in Clear Creek Canyon.
• Rewind Trailer by:BS Productions >> Through five full-length films, BS Productions has amassed years of footage of hundreds of climbers doing what they do best. It is finally time to open the vaults and reveal the adventures as one seamless film. In REWIND, you can travel back to connect the stories with years of never before seen footage. Join us to traverse the lives of Dave Graham, Jason Kehl, Joe Kinder, Emily Harrington, Chris Lindner and many, many more in a non-stop stream of action that will flash over 15 years of climbing before your eyes.