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LATEST ROCK CLIMBING NEWS

ACCESS & CONSERVATION

Clean sweep for Wintour's Leap

14/02/2012

Volunteers are requested for a litter clean up at Wintour's Leap on Sunday 26 February.
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ACCESS & CONSERVATION

Pembroke: Range West briefings 2012

10/02/2012

If you want to climb at Range West in Pembrokeshire during 2012, then you need to attend an annual briefing at the Castlemartin Army Camp. Dates for the three briefings to be held in 2012 have just been arranged.
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MEDICAL

Petition calls for more support for Lyme disease

08/02/2012

Lyme disease patients and their carers, families and friends are organising a petition to present to the UK government, asking that clinics and specialists dedicated to the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases may be established.
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ACCESS & CONSERVATION

Coastal access: Ed Douglas goes behind the headlines

07/02/2012

Last week, BMC lobbying on coastal access paid off when Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the Environment, rejected several possible restrictions to climbing at Lulworth Cove.
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GUIDEBOOKS

Are you a Fanatical Guidebook Collector?

06/02/2012

Do you frequent second-hand bookshops and are you in possession of some rare pamphlet rock climbing guidebook which you jealously guard and show only to your closest friends? If so then read on.
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SKILLS

Hazel Findlay: fear of falling?

06/02/2012

Can you imagine how rubbish Chris Sharma would be if he'd had the mentality of never falling? If you're trying to push your trad climbing without falling off then you’re holding yourself back, explains Hazel Findlay.
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CLUBS

Funding for BMC clubs 2012

03/02/2012

Did you know that BMC-affiliated clubs can apply to the BMC for financial support to help develop communications, buy equipment and provide instructor support to members?
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LATEST ROCK CLIMBING VIDEOS

MEMBERSHIP

All in a day's work for the BMC

01/02/2012

Securing access…Supporting British climbing talent…Promoting good practice…it’s all in a day’s work for the BMC. Watch our new star-studded video to get just a flavour of what we do on behalf of and with support from the climbing community; and see what Steve McClure will do for a biscuit! Keep an eye out for a future instalment highlighting our work for hill walkers. Not yet a member? Join now by Direct Debit and save 50%
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YOUTH & EQUITY

The Gender Project

16/12/2011

The first in the series of the UK's newest and most interesting climbing film project, in association with Liverpool's 'The Climbing Hangar'.
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YOUTH & EQUITY

Wild One - the story of Philippe Ribiere

15/12/2011

A new documentary about French climber Philippe Ribiere.
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UPCOMING EVENTS THIS MONTH

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
30	3131/01/2012BMC Leading Ladder - Kendal Lakeland Climbing Centre	101/02/2012Mid Wales Outreach Group Meeting Druid Inn	2	3	4	5
6	707/02/2012Cymru / Wales Area meeting Gallt y Glyn hotel	808/02/2012London & South East Area Meeting Alpine Club HQ	9	10	1111/02/2012BMC Leading Ladder - Cardiff Boulders Climbing Centre	1212/02/2012Avon Gorge Crag Clearance Main Area, Avon Gorge
1313/02/2012Yorkshire Area Meeting The Dyneley Arms	1414/02/2012Mick Fowler lecture - Stockport Heaton Moor Sports Club	1515/02/2012Climbing Conditioning Workshop, Durham Durham Climbing Centre	16	17	18	19
20	2121/02/2012Training and Assessing workshop- Teaching leading indoors Big Rock Climbing Centre	2222/02/2012Film: To The Limit (Am Limit) Ciné lumière	2323/02/2012ShAFF Expert Climbing Night The Showroom	24	2525/02/2012BMC Leading Ladder - Liverpool Awesome Walls Liverpool	2626/02/2012Wintour's Leap clean-up Wintour's Leap
2727/02/2012FUNdamentals of Climbing 1 Awesome Walls Liverpool	2828/02/2012FUNdamentals of Climbing 1 Nottingham Climbing Centre	29	1	202/03/2012Disability Awareness Training- Climbing for All Newcastle Climbing Centre	3	404/03/2012Intro to the CWA and SPA Awards Bolton University Climbing Wall