Audio stories: climbing on rock

These interviews took place between April and November 2020. People featured on this page:

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England

Reflections on climbing in Cornwall, the Peak District and the Lake District

Gill Price: climbing Eroica (E4), Pentire Point, Cornwall
Jo Abbot: Troutdale Pinnacle Direct (Lake District) in a storm
Hilary Lawrenson: climbing Elegy (E2), Peak District
Biddy Burgum: gymnastics useful on Commando Ridge, Cornwall
 

Wales

Stories from some of Wales’s most iconic venues, including Snowdonia and Gogarth

Denise Evans: climbing with John Disley; first ascent of Gallup Step
Denise Evans: climbing with Joe Brown
Jo Scarr: 1961, first woman to climb Cenotaph Corner
Hilary Lawrenson: ambitions on Left Wall (E3/E2)
Cathy Woodhead: being filmed on Dream of White Horses
Jill Lawrence: doing the first female ascent of Right Wall (E5)
Gill Price: Comes the Dervish (then E4/E5), "an easy route for a lady"
Angela Soper: My first visit to Cloggy
Stella Adams: from VD to Cenotaph Corner
Ellie Fuller: morphic resonance at E3
Alison Cairns: Lockwood's Chimney on the 75th anniversary
Milena von und zur Mühlen: the joys of Lockwood's Chimney
Milena von und zur Mühlen: climbing Great Wall (E4), Clogwyn Du'r Arddu
 

Scotland

Tales of Skye and bothies

Angela Soper: an unfortunate adventure on the Cuillin Ridge
Sally Macintyre: the Scottish bothy trips
Annabelle Barker: fun on the Cioch Nose

Europe

Gill Price: climbing French style in the Verdon
Cathy Woodhead: adventure on the north face of the Piz Badile
Mandy Glanvill: abseil adventure in the Dolomites
Stella Adams: Another Day in Paradise and the Cassin Route
Ellie Fuller: independence on the Comici
Jan Rickman: finding the Alps

The Americas

Milena von und zur Mühlen: climbing Royal Arches, Yosemite
Alison Cairns: the City of Rocks, Idaho
Stella Adams: climbing in Mexico
Stella Adams: Brazil, time to explore
Stella Adams: Utah sandstone and climber generosity
Sally Westmacott: encounters with a grizzly in Alaska
Sally Westmacott: the first ascent of Sam's Swan Song, Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire
 

Africa and Australasia

Cathy Woodhead: fun new routes in Morocco
Mandy Glanvill: getting the bug for new routing
Milena von und zur Mühlen: climbing in the Arapiles

Photo credits

(where known)

Alison Cairns - Hazel Jones
Biddy Burgum - Milena von und zur Mühlen
Cathy Woodhead - David Medcalf
Denise Evans - John Cleare
Gill Price - Border TV
Hilary Lawrenson - Jessie Leong
Jill Lawrence - John Cleare
Jo Abbott - Jill Croskell
Jo Scarr - Adele Long
Milena von und zur Mühlen - Jessie Leong
Stella Adams - John Adams

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