Your First Time
When was your first time climbing? Or daring to scale a frozen waterfall? Your first encounter with a glacier? Read about our team's firsts!...
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Climbing the Seven Volcanoes: a search for strength // Book Review
What’s on your lockdown reading list? If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent a lot of time staring out the window, dreaming of adventures - anything from small trips to the local crag, to climbing 8000-metre peaks. But what will it take to motivate you...
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Deniz & Fiona’s Epic Mountain Adventure
Is Ben Nevis on your bucket list of mountains to climb? Let us inspire with Deniz and Fiona's latest ascent!...
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What’s your story?
What's your story? Who inspires you? Hear from our Founder and CEO Emily, and join our 'Stories' night!...
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Zoom Etiquette at Womenclimb
Not sure about how to Zoom in the right way? We've got you covered for Womenclimb Zooms with our etiquette guide...
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Staying Fit, Staying Local
Lockdown presents a unique set of challenges. Let's talk about Staying fit while staying local!...
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Why We Need the Women in Adventure Film Competition
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Women in Adventure Film Competition is now in its sixth year. Womenclimb's Caitlin takes the time to explain why its still important to promote women-centred content.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7261" img_size="medium" alignment="center"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A few weeks ago I heard something that shocked me. I was climbing with a group...
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Winter Fun
Why have a winter fest? Emily talks about the reasons behind the upcoming winter fest in Aviemore and what's happening. ...
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Top Tips for Exploring Nature
Do you know how to spot different trees and wildlife? Kathryn...
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Climbing in the Olympics – how it works
The Olympics is coming. And climbing is in it this time round. Get everything you need to know, here at Womenclimb, so you go into your competition viewing with all of the intel. ...
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An Introduction to Routesetting with Emma Twyford
Are you interested in route-setting? Not sure where to start? Let your self be inspired by Emma Twyford, a top-level British climber, as shares her route-setting journey with us....
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Book Review: Fantastic Female Adventurers – Lily Dyu
Are you ready to inspire a child? Lily Dyu's book might have just the right combination of magic and fun to bring adventure to life for the little (and not so little) ones in your life. Find out more from Womenclimb writer Caitlin Ripley. ...
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Destination Guides – by you!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Do you have a favourite crag you want to shout about? Have you stumbled on the perfect set of beginner's boulders? Esoteric or popular; piddly 9 metre single pitch gruntwork or long multipitch exposure; everything in between and around...
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Outdoor Meetup // Wales (Part 1)
Something amazing happened at our meetup today. You might want to find out to see if you want some of the same - we've got lots more meetups happening soon for you to join in. Our meet ups are designed to adapt and meet the...
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Climbing Books to Enjoy This Summer
As the Easter weekend proved, summer is well underway. More daylight and longer hours means much more time spent outdoors, but that doesn’t mean you need to neglect climbing completely during your down time....
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Climbing and the Olympics: Part One
Are you excited?! Just in case you haven’t heard (are you living in a climbing-free cave?), in 2016 it was announced that Sport Climbing, along with Skateboarding, Surfing and Karate, would be trialed at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. But a climbing competition? How do you...
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Why go to a Womenclimb Meetup?
Ever wanted to climb, but none of your friends are available? Ever felt daunted by a particular route, unsure how to go about it? Join one of our monthly Indoor Meetups, all across the UK! Each meetup is led by a wonderful Womenclimb Ambassador: ‘I became an ambassador for Womenclimb because...
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#1 Amazing Climbing Community
Our climbing partners are crucial to our climbing success. They are there through our achievements and highs, as well as our struggles and challenges. They can make or break our climbing experience. What we’ve discovered through listening to you, our community, is that women often...
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Destination Guide: Thorn Crag
I’ll be honest. I discovered Thorn Crag as a result of a somewhat desperate Google search: “easy bouldering UK”. As that search indicates, I am by no means a boulderer. A nasty ankle injury bouldering indoors early in my climbing career, compounded by a trip to Font with...
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Women’s Leadership Opportunity
The Outward Bound Trust has launched an exciting new Women's Leadership Course (closing date 22nd April 2019). Kate O'Brien, Project Manager at the Trust, spoke to us about the scheme to give some insight into what the scheme is about and who they are looking...
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Bouldering in Finland: Part Three
Then and Now, Courtesy of the Ice Age “Finnish bouldering is as good as anywhere, and there is a lot of it”, one keen climber summed up in the Finnish climbing documentary Cold Stone. It is easy to second that. You’ll notice granite blocks dotting the forest floor...
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Bouldering in Finland: Part Two
Spring Fin Bouldering, Åland Island Life Anssi Laatikainen photography Spring sunshine is brushing the surface of red granite blocks in Åland’s Djupviksgrottorna (more casually, Grottan). The granite here is slated in such a way that the ubiquitous roofs look like they’ve been constructed from stacked up Lego blocks. The hold-potential of those...
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Bouldering in Finland: Part One
Planning your next Adventure Holiday: Lappnor Projects Weak rays of autumn sunlight reach through the twigs of an evergreen forest. A dirt road slithers between the trees, becoming more and more uneven as it runs deeper into the forest. It is Sunday in mid-August, and the boulder...
Read More7 Reasons I Chose my Climbing Gym
There has been a recent explosion of bouldering gyms around Sydney, and having climbed at each of them, let me tell you why I travel one hour each way to get to the gym I chose. It’s in Lane Cove, and it’s called 9 Degrees...
Read MoreBouldering in the Falklands
Falkland Islander Lisa Watson is a keen boulderer and editor of the Falklands local newspaper. She and her partner Jonny Summers are on a mission to build the Islands first bouldering gym. Find her on Instagram @lisapenguin and on Twitter @lisafalklands Being capable of shearing 300...
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Best VS crags
Spring is finally here and our trad gear is rattling to get out of the closet and onto the crag. For some early season inspiration we thought we’d bring you five of the best crags in England and Wales (sorry Scotland and NI!) for climbing...
Read MoreSave the Planet: Climbing Style
It’s been the hottest winter on record, Blue Planet has shown the true perils of the plastic straw, and latest sea level projections are suggesting that we’ll be snorkelling up Pembroke’s seacliffs by 2300. OK, so maybe the last one isn’t quite right, but as...
Read MoreMera Peak – Part 2: The Summit
'I’m not getting out of bed for less than $10,000.' My alarm melodies. It's 1am on 13th October, 2018. I hear people shuffling around outside the tent of our summit camp, 5800 metres high in the Himalaya. I lie for another 20 minutes until Durjee calls “tea?”....
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Indoor Climbing in Glasgow
Whether you’re escaping the rain on weekends or getting in some training around the daily grind, there are two high quality indoor rock climbing venues in Glasgow. If you're lacking in belay buddies, check out this Glasgow Climbers Facebook page to find climbing partners in Glasgow! A fantastic...
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Fearless Fridays: Dreaming of Kilimanjaro
"You need to combat your fears of failing first and after that, simply take it step by step. Even if you don’t get to the very top, you’ll get an awful lot from the experience as a whole." Last September, travel writer Lindsay Hawdon achieved a...
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