Modern equipment standards, which the BMC helped create and continues to be involved in evolving, ensure that safety equipment for climbers is better than it ever has been. Here we provide advice on ...

Climbing shoes may get all the air time, but unless you’re in the ranks of soloists like Peter Croft, Alex Honnold and Marc-André Leclerc, you’re going to need one of the best climbing harnesses. This ...

Climbing a rock face, opening a new route and rejoicing when you reach the summit: this is mountaineering, a challenge against the mountain and against yourself whether it’s on rock, snow, ice or ...

It was a London Mountaineering Club meet in early February and Eryri National Park’s stunning Glyderau range were blanketed in snow. We’d set our sights on two of the UK’s classic mountaineering ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Climbing is proving more popular than ever - with five million ...

A climbing harness is one of the few pieces of gear that is absolutely essential when attempting to scale anything that stretches beyond bouldering height. Maybe you don’t feel that way if you’re Alex ...

Climbing is proving more popular than ever - with five million people heading to Britain’s climbing walls annually to get to ...