Rock Climbing
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Do Women Train Less Than Men?
Do you feel that is true? I’m personally an advocate for training for climbing in the sense of bettering our physical bodies in order to perform better. But I’ve generally found there to be less women interested in training so I wanted to investigate whether that was actually true or simply an impression that I…
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How to Climb Your First 14a
There are things about sport climbing and redpointing that no other person can instill in one another, or at least no one had ever told me. Some people say trying hard is the only thing that you can’t teach, but in my own life I found more than that to be missing. There’s a drive,…
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What Projecting Your First 8A Looks Like
[Feature photo by: Lans Hansen. Shoes by Barrabes. Clothes by 3RD ROCK.] The rumour mill of sending. Every time we hear that someone has sent something, the air is filled with questions. How long did it take, how many tries, how did they get that strong —- basically just how. If you are anything like me, you…
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Why You Should Start Projecting & Stop Playing it Safe
[Feature photo by: James Taylor] A little context: for me projecting my first 8A was a very emotional process. I don’t know how to describe this fully other than through this series of paragraphs. Not your thing? For details of the actual climbing, my blog on the session by session breakdown to climbing 8A is…
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Gear Testing: Scarpa Vapour V W
[this post is supported by ] In the switch from winter to summer, I went from climbing indoor blocs in London at the Blokfest series to started to summer sport climbing outdoors in the Peak District and up in Yorkshire at Malham and Kilnsey. I won’t get started on the indoor vs outdoor argument, but…
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One Woman Psyche Part 2: Nerves
No rock climbing partner, no rope and no draws – the story of what happens on a solo climbing trip to the Red River Gorge, Kentucky.
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One Woman Psyche: Part 1
In light of today’s election results, I thought what better thing to do than distract myself and others with something other than political woes. Entertainment is our favourite form of escapism, so here is the first of my blogs about my recent trip to the Red River Gorge… Thanks for reading! This past year has…
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A Taste of ‘Professional’ Climbing
In the past 6 months, a huge amount of change has occurred in my climbing career (not to mention the fact that I feel like I have one now). I climbed a few 8a sport climbs, was offered my first sponsorship from Monkey Fist – a skincare brand I really love, and I was an…
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9 Tips to Send Your One-Day Boulder Project
Looking through my log of climbing journals, I found this little throwback and I was surprised to find some good advice…I found my own Tips to Send a Project, which I hadn’t read in so long, I found pretty useful myself and will use them my upcoming trip to Magic Wood. If you’ve ever had…
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Confessions of a Climbing Sexist
Today rummaging on the internet, I stumbled upon a shared post by Light Shed Pictures, reposting a ‘high-five’ to a letter from Georgie Abel in response to Evening Sends author Andrew Bisharat. Not typically one to get too involved in the climbing-sexism topic (I usually leave that to my friend Zofia Reych who does a…
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