Rock Climbing

Hard to take good climbing shots when you are actually doing it – you generally end up with shots of bums or tops of heads mostly besides you don’t often want to burden yourself down with a camera when climbing. Nonetheless a few shots here.

Nightride

Nightride – Gogarth main cliff – Len about to start the main pitch. Named as the 1st ascensionists finished in the dark

Sloth

Sloth HVS– The Roaches- Just apeing around

Goliaths Groove

Goliaths Groove – Stanage

Silica

Silica – Stanage

The Ramp – Gogarth

Womanless Wall – Standing Stones.

Womenless Wall – Obviously misnamed in this instance. Standing Stones is a remote and secluded moorland gritstone outcrop.

Strapiombante

Strapiombante – Froggatt. Fixing gear before committing to the upper wall

Wuthering – Stanage

Wuthering E2 – Stanage – Wide bridging to get established on the crucial foot hold on the arête before pulling onto the slab

Strapiombante

Strapiombante – Getting the flat finishing ledge

Terrazza Crack – Stanage

Curving Crack

The classic Curving Crack at Cloggy

Aardvark

Aardvark E2 – Gogarth on the Main Cliff. Gogarth was always one of my favourite crags

Party Animal – Rivelin

Vector

Vector – Tremadoc, The famed ochre slab looms above

Parkers Eliminate

Parkers Eliminate HVS Hobson Moor

Incursion

Incursion E1 – Stanage – reaching for the crucial pebble