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This site is all about rock climbing, mountaineering, hill walking & mountain biking in the UK and beyond. Hopefully you will find something of use. The best approach is to dive straight in, browse around and see what you can find. If you'd like a few more pointers then some of the site highlights are listed below.
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Giles Thurston
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
We review Andy Kirkpatricks new autobiography, which charts how he broke onto the UK climbing scene and his thirteen day solo climb of Reticent Wall on El Capitan in California.
Titled Psychovertical it follows a similar vein to the talk of the same title that Andy was giving last year. Based around his thirteen day solo ascent of Reticent Wall on El Capitan in California, he interlinks chapters of this climb with chapters around his youth and how broke into the UK and alpine climbing scene.
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Gallery Highlights
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View back to Landmannalaugar Campsite -
Looking back down to Mt Cook village
Latest Articles
Interview with Renan Ozturk
Cheaptents.com have recently published an interview with Renan Ozturk, another of North Faces sponsored climbers.
Renan has combined the two great passions of his life and become a very well accredited climber and artist in his own right. He continues to push himself harder each time he takes to climbing a new face and only last year, Renan became one of the first people to rediscover ancient murals of Budha in the semi-autonomous zone of Mustang in Tibet, after a tip-off by a local sheep farmer.
Read our excerpt from his recent interview with cheaptents.com
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Other Recent Articles
Latest Reviews
The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin
The young John Harlin III came of age possessed with the very same passion for risk that drove his father to his death on the North Face of the Eiger. But he had also promised his mother, a beautiful and brilliant young widow, that he would not be an Alpine climber. Harlin moved from Europe to America, and, with an insatiable sense of wanderlust, he revelled in downhill skiing and rock-climbing. For years he successfully denied the siren call of the mountain that killed his father. But in 2005, he could resist no longer. And so it was, that with his nine-year-old daughter, Siena – his very age at the time of his father’s death – and with an IMAX Theatre filmmaking crew watching, John Harlin III set off towards the Eiger…
Read 'The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin' review in full
Other Recent Reviews
Mountains & Routes
UK Mountain Database
The mountain database contains details of all 3000 peaks in UK over 150m. You can browse by area or all the major ticklists including Munros and Wainwrights.
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Route Database
The route database contains details of walks, scrambles, rock climbs, mountaineering routes, ice climbs and alpine routes added by our visitors. Why not log your own routes and share them with others?
Downloads
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