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The BMC's AGM was held on Wed 3 Sept 2025

This weekend the BMC’s Big Clean Up on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) saw 50 volunteers and eight professional mountaineers hiking and abseiling respectively to collect and survey over 4,000 items of plastic pollution from Wales’ highest mountain.

The Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) Big Clean Up returns this Thursday 31 July to Saturday 2 August after a hugely successful event last year with 2,765 items of single-use plastic pollution removed from Wales’ highest mountain by BMC volunteers.

With the sun out in full blast this summer, it's a timely reminder for us all, especially those of us drawn to high, open, and reflective terrain to be skin cancer aware. While a day out on the rock or ridge can be exhilarating, it also exposes our skin to intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation, especially at altitude. Climbers Against Cancer have put together some great information about why sun care matters more than ever for us.

Today, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Outdoor Recreation and Access to Nature has launched a Call for Evidence to examine how to allow more people to access the outdoors.

The BMC's Access & Conservation Trust (ACT) has joined the 1% for the Planet Environmental Partners network.

If you're an Individual BMC member who has been involved in a climbing (rock or plastic), hill walking or mountaineering accident, you could benefit from £10,000 Personal Accident cover included in your membership - you never know when it might come in handy.

GB Skimo’s Iain Innes and Finlay Wild capped off the 2024/25 Ski Mountaineering season with a 20th place finish at the ISMF Skimo Long Distance World Championships at the XXIV Trofeo Mezzalama, one of the world’s toughest and most celebrated ski mountaineering races.

With the Easter Bank Holiday approaching and more people than ever heading to the hills, the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) is echoing a vitally important message from Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW): be prepared, be informed, and don’t rely on your phone alone.

Over 60 climbers from 20 countries took to the Scottish hills from 2-7 March for the first International Winter Meet since 2020. Organised by Mountaineering Scotland in partnership with the BMC, The Scottish Mountaineering Club and The Alpine Club, the event paired visiting climbers with hosts to share knowledge, exchange skills and form international friendships in the beating heart of Scottish winter climbing.

Ahead of the final two World Cups of the ISMF 2024/2025 Ski Mountaineering series, we take a look back at the highlights for the GB SkiMo Squad in this Winter Olympic qualifying season so far. 

Today, on the first ever World Day for Glaciers, 21 March 2025, we celebrate what the BMC is already doing and how you can support us in preserving these vast, frozen rivers that we mountaineers and climbers love to work and play on.

The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) can today announce the athletes who have been named as part of the GB Skimo Squad for the 2024/25 season.

The Cwm Idwal Winter Monitoring system is now back live and with new equipment and software. Ready for you to head up the hills in the best wintery conditions.

On July 25, Rick Allen (November 1954 - July 2021) died in an avalanche while attempting a new route on K2, aged 68. Something of a 'legendary grandfather' in Himalayan climbing circles, he was best known for making the first complete ascent of Nanga Parbat’s Mazeno Ridge in 2012, with Sandy Allan, for which the pair earned a Piolet D'Or.