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Winter Lecture Series: National Tour 2025
Join us for the BMC Winter Lecture Series, your essential prep for winter adventures in the mountains. This UK tour brings expert insights, hands-on advice, and real-life stories from seasoned winter mountaineers Sam Leary and Mick Jones.
Join a BMC local area walk
Whether you’ve been getting out hiking for years or are looking to get started, why not come along to one of our social walks?
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Clubs
Boost your fundraising skills with a course packed full of practical ideas, from crowdfunding and Gift Aid to grants and sponsorship. Learn proven strategies to raise more money and grow your group’s income with confidence.
Events
The England Climbing Trials are the key selection event for the England Climbing Foundation and Development Programmes. Aimed at young athletes in the U13 and U15 age categories, the Trials offer a great opportunity to test their skills, grow through competition, and take part in a fun and supportive environment designed to encourage their long-term development in the sport.
Yorkshire Walks
You are invited to join a peer-led walk, hosted by BMC Yorkshire Area volunteer, Carmine De Grandis (Mountain Accordion Man) guiding the route. This social walk will explore one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks using a short, circular route which reaches the top of Ingleborough and, returning via Little Ingleborough.
Hill Walking
Join us for a free social hike into the hills during the biggest event in the mountaineering calendar - Kendal Mountain Festival.
Mountaineering Articles
Do you want to stride out into the winter hills and mountains with confidence? Take your winter adventure skills to the next level with our Winter Lecture Series.
Access & Conservation
The UK’s dramatic coastline isn’t just a world-class climbing venue – they’re also vital habitats for some of our most iconic marine mammals.
Rock Climbing
Since the publication of Rock Climbs on the Eastern Edges in 1960, the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has been the custodian of definitive climbing guidebooks for the Peak District. For more than 60 years, these publications have provided climbers with accurate, community-led route information and trusted access advice.
Mountaineering Articles
Do you want to stride out into the winter hills and mountains with confidence? Take your winter adventure skills to the next level with our Winter Lecture Series.
Mountaineering Articles
Do you want to stride out into the winter hills and mountains with confidence? Take your winter adventure skills to the next level with our Winter Lecture Series.
Mountaineering News
Tom Livingstone and Aleš Česen's ascent has been awarded the highest mountaineering merit - the Piolet d'Or - for the mountain's third ever complete ascent. We caught up with Tom and heard his views about the award and his experience of the climb itself.
Mountaineering Articles
Do you want to stride out into the winter hills and mountains with confidence? Take your winter adventure skills to the next level with our Winter Lecture Series.
Mountaineering Articles
Do you want to stride out into the winter hills and mountains with confidence? Take your winter adventure skills to the next level with our Winter Lecture Series.
GET INVOLVED
Campaigns
From footpath repair, re-growing our moorlands to fight the climate crisis, to organised litter picks on the hills and to rallying members to write to their MPs asking for the removal of the sale of disposable BBQs, we have a great range of campaigns to get behind. Find out more about our active campaigns, and why they're making a difference to the British hills you love.
Volunteers
Our dedicated and passionate network of hundreds of volunteers are the lifeblood of the BMC. From opportunities within conservation, access, competitions and walk leaders. Come and join us!
Clubs
Looking to join a mountaineering, climbing or hill walking club or are you already a member? We have all the essential BMC clubs information and advice for you.
EVENTS CALENDAR
Yorkshire Walks
You are invited to join a peer-led walk, hosted by BMC Yorkshire Area volunteer, Carmine De Grandis (Mountain Accordion Man) guiding the route. This social walk will explore one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks using a short, circular route which reaches the top of Ingleborough and, returning via Little Ingleborough.
Hill Walking
Join us for a free social hike into the hills during the biggest event in the mountaineering calendar - Kendal Mountain Festival.
North Cymru Walks
This social walk celebrates 25 years of the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act, which opened up access to land like never before. We’ll explore iconic landscapes in Eryri National Park, starting at Ogwen Cottage and passing through Cwm Idwal, known for its rich natural history, world renowned arctic plants and access rights provided under CRoW.
Lakes Area Walks
Come and join us to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the passing into law of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, 2000. The act that gave us the legal right to walk on open access land across England and Wales.