Who are we and what do we do?
We are an active rock climbing and mountaineering club based in the north of the Lake District
We also hold many weekend meets, both in the Lake District and in other places such as Scotland, Northumberland, the Peak District, Wales and Cornwall/Devon.
The videos on the right (the first 4 courtesy of ) give a flavour of some of the classic routes in the Lakes.
These locations provide larger mountains than we have in the Lake District, and hence larger mountaineering challenges. There is often a mix of mountaineering, rock climbing on the lower crags, and via ferratas (where you protect a climb by clipping to a permanent steel cable).
In Scotland (where the weather is less dependable) we often use the poor weather days for some scrambling.
Members get together via our “Partners wanted” Forum or ourFacebook Group to go winter climbing whenever the weather allows.
Between late October and mid April, we usually run a meet for a week or two somewhere sunny (e.g. Kalymnos, Costa Blanca, Cyprus, or Sicily), so that members can get outside to climb in the dry.
We run a series of winter lectures/film shows at the Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth
Future events |
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Past events |
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Date/Time | Event | Organiser | Pub afterwards | Category | Status |
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25/02/2020 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm |
KMC Film Evening
The Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth Cumbria |
Jim Fairey | “The Last Climb” with Eric Jones | ||
21/01/2020 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm |
KMC Video Evening
The Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth Cumbria |
Jim Fairey | A selection of climbing, skiing and mountaineering videos |
This video shows scrambling on Sharp Edge on Blencathra. This video shows scrambling on Napes Needle on Great Gable.