Climbing is a broad sport. It encompasses bouldering and deep water solo to single pitch sport, multi-pitch traditional and even free climbing big walls. And then you’ve got all the different types of rock and grades to discuss. And that’s…

Sitting there, on the summit of Kuglhorn everything fell into place. Lofoten archipelago stretched out before me like a jewellery box full of emeralds and sapphires. The rock under me was reassuringly solid, immovable. My fears had flown away on…

I felt on top of the world, though at 3,798m, the Grossglockner is a long way from the sky-scraping heights of Everest. It is, however, Austria’s highest mountain and offers novice mountaineers like myself a full-flavoured taste of adventures on…