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
Between each April and September we meet every Tuesday afternoon and evening to climb on the local crags.
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.
We climb at crags all over the northern Lake District, but our local crag to Keswick is Shepherd's Crag in Borrowdale. One of the most famous easy climbs there is Little Chamonix, shown above.
During the summer months we often run a meet in the Alps, the Dolomites, and/or Scotland (e.g. Ben Nevis or the Cuillin Ridge on Skye).
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.
We usually have at least one meet in Scotland each year - often a long weekend on Ben Nevis or a week in Skye on the Cuillin Ridge. The video shows Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis.
We sometimes run weekend/week meets in Scotland or Norway for ice climbing.
Members get together via our “Partners wanted” Forum or our Facebook Group to go winter climbing whenever the weather allows.
This video gives a taste of one of our winter meets in Rjukan Norway.
In the winter our regular Tuesday evening meets move to the indoor Kong Adventure wall at Keswick.
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 scrambling meets throughout the winter. We love to get out in the snow with our axes and crampons, but when there is no snow we get out on the rock – even when it is damp.
The videos on the right (courtesy of the 
, to which we are affiliated) show some typical scrambles. Check out the Napes Needle video for a feel of scrambling in the damp.
This video shows scrambling on Sharp Edge on Blencathra.
We have a linked Facebook Group (which you can join once you are a member of the club). The Group is a great place to discuss anything related to climbing, find partners to climb with, and to share photos of climbing meets.
We also have an extensive WhatsApp community, with a number of forums discussing: Meet Information, Finding a Climbing Partner, Kit Sale/Swap, Organizing Trips Away.
