I’m a very keen rockclimber, enjoying both trad and sport climbing, bouldering and competitions. I’ve climbed throughout Britain with Northumberland and the Yorkshire limestone being my favourite haunts. On the trad front I’ve on-sighted over 60 E5’s and several E6’s, as well as flashing Death Wish E7 6b at Blue Scar, making the 4th ascent of Vlad the Impailer E7 6b at Dove Crag (ground-up) and head-pointing Stairway to Heaven E7 6c, Blue Scar and On The Rocks E7 6c at Back Bowden. On the bolts I’ve flashed F7c abroad and on-sighted several F7b+’s both in this country and abroad. I’ve red-pointed several F7c+’s (often 1st or 2nd red-point) as well as making red-point ascents of Cold Steal F8a at Kilnsey, Supercool F8a+ in Gordale and The Groove F8a+ at Malham. I’ve dabbled in competitions on and off for several years with reasonable success. This winter I entered the full series of the British Bouldering
Championships finishing 4th overall, and the
Sunderland round of the British Indoor Climbing
Championships which I won.

The trust I have in my BD gear has enabled me to try on-sight new routing which gives a tremendous buzz. Consequently, I’ve now got several new routes to my name from E1-E5, the majority being found up in Scotland (several being out on the sea cliffs on Mingulay). My favourite piece of gear has to be my camalots which are awesome, the best cams on the market in my opinion. The women’s harnesses are also mega, fitting better than any of the unisex harnesses I’ve had before. All the BD gear is well thought out and performs extremely well, which is what you want no matter which route you are on.

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