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Bill and Dom's excellent adventure. North America Wall.

Back in 2018 Bill and Dom headed stateside on a trip into the Yosemite Valley. Following in the footsteps of Royal Robbins they ticked one of the Valley's finest routes - North America Wall.

No hammers were used in the making of the ascent.

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Five years after the Club’s lease of Cwm Eigiau ended in 1921 a sub-committee was formed to find a replacement “in some local climbing or tramping area but not so difficult of access as was the Cwm Eigiau hut or even so far off as the Langdale Valley”. A search for premises close to the Kinder/Bleaklow area proved fruitless but then Herbert Carr, Hon. Sec. of the Climbers’ Club and former Rucksack Club member, suggested Tal y Braich Uchaf, a small farmhouse near to Helyg, the CC’s new hut in the Ogwen Valley. A lease was signed in February 1927 and we are fortunate to have in the archives Keith Treacher’s unpublished history of Tal y Braich covering the next seventeen years.

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Some great shots from one of our members who spent a few days in summer 2019 staying at our Welsh hut, Beudy Mawr. This hut, located just outside Nant Peris, provides great accommodation along with easy access to Llanberis for climbing and the Glyders for hiking. Explore our website to find out more. ... See more

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Throwback to February 2019 where a group of us spent a week on our annual ice climbing meet in Cogne - the conditions were fantastic which made it all the more enjoyable.