Tunbridge Wells Mountaineering Club
#theTWMC – a friendly climbing club on the Kent-Sussex border
Trips are climbing trips that club members have been on.
We sat perched on the rooftop of Chez Lamin Hadj Mustapha, overlooking downtown Marrakesh beneath us. This was our grand, celebratory blowout meal after a hard earned trip into the High Atlas Mountains, and we all had eyes far bigger than our stomachs. Read more…
Back in Septemper, Rob and I managed to sneak in a socially distanced trip to Carnmore in the remote Fisherfield forest in the Scottish Highlands. Read the full report here
So its been a while since I did an article on what I’ve been up to. Rumours that I’d become an indoor boulderer and taken up croquet have been greatly exagerated, but I do go to the Arch more often than Harrisons. Continue reading “Mont Blanc Marathon 2015 – Paul Highams”
I got an invitation from some old friends to join them on a trip to Lundy Island and I said yes, I hadn’t seen them for a while and a weekend away from the usual work stresses seemed like a good idea at the time.
As it turns out – easier said than done and the logistics of actually getting over to the Island, climbing the “Devil’s Slide” by one route or another and getting back to Kent in a single weekend are rather more difficult than you would expect. Continue reading “Dancing with the Devil’s Slide on Summer Solstice, 21 June 2015 – Nic Cosmos”
The day (8th August 2014) started at 6.30 am in the La Grave campsite with an early breakfast & final check of the rucksack contents, not that there was a lot you can get in a 40 litre alpine pack. Continue reading “Le Rateau (AD) 3700m. A quick & dirty alpine climb – Mark Holden”