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The ascent of stefan glowacz
This business of meeting your heroes isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I remember bumping into John Cleese on a London street once and finding myself so tongue-tied he must have thought he’d bumped into a Notting Hill Billy. The bigger the hero, the more intense the giblet shrivelling fear of appearing the star-struck, […]
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The Creamer of the crop
I rely on my missus for many things, not least her ability to turn my drivel into something approximating to English. So I thought it might be worth asking her what searching questions I should put to Lucy Creamer, into which nuances of the feminine climbing psyche we should delve. What did she come up […]
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The slackers guide
Kendal Mountain Festival is probably Britain’s most important gathering of the outdoor clans and, in 2010, John Horscroft interviewed two formidable characters. Steve McClure is one of the best climbers in the country with a number of unrepeated first ascents to his name. Rab Carrington created the iconic company that still bears his name and, […]
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Faith and Friction
Don’t you just love the Grit? No? Me neither sometimes. It really is a love/hate relationship for me because climbing on the Grit is all about the three C’s, commitment, confidence and cajones and the chances of me demonstrating all three on the same day is remote. Add to that the fact that I’m not […]