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Interview with British climber Rob Matheson who, aged 74, in April 2025 made an audacios repeat of 'The Bells, The Bells!', one of the most fearsome trad climbs in Great Britain. Located on North Stack Wall at Gogarth, it has only seen a handful of repeats since its first ascent...

On 16/05/2025 Czech climber Adam Ondra made the first-ever flash ascent of a British trad climb graded E11, Lexicon at Pavey Ark in England.

The video of British climber Pete Whittaker making the second ascent of 'Pure Now' (E9 6c) at millstone Edge, UK. The first ascent of this bold gritstone climb was carried out by Tom Randall in March 2014.

Watch Belgian rock climber Siebe Vanhee as his explores the trad climbing on the gritstone crags in the UK, where he manages to to meet up with British climbing legends such as John Dunne, Pete Whittaker, Sam Whittaker, Jim Pope, Franco Cookson, Ben Heason and Johnny Dawes.

During a climbing trip to the UK, Belgium’s Siebe Vanhee repeated a flurry of hard gritstone trad climbs including Parthian Shot E9, End of the Affair E8 and Gaia E8.

The video Big Balls & Ground Falls featuring a selection of some of most famous trad climbs on the gritstone crags in England’s Peak District.

The classic 1984 climbing documentary by Sid Perou about Ron Fawcett, one of the outstanding rock climbers of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Thirteen classic gritstone boulder problems and trad climbs in the Peak District National Park climbed by Benjamin Linné Ryn at Stanage Edge, millstone Edge, Froggatt Edge, Burbage and Black Rocks.

At Hallmoor Quarry in England's Peak District British climber Tom Randall has made the first ascent of Soft Parade E6 6b, while at Gardoms Edge he established Porride Egg E6 6a and Nah'han E8 6c.

Video of Tom Randall climbing London Wall at millstone in gym shoes.

millstone Edge is one of the most popular gritstone crags in England. Overlooking Hathersage and just a stone's throw from Sheffield, this former quarry hosts some of the finest gritstone lines in the country.

On 05/01/2008 Pete Whittaker made the first ascent of "Grandad's Slab" E7 6c on the gritstone Burbage South, England.

Lisa Rands from America becomes the first female climber to ascend gritstone E8 by climbing End Of The Affair (E8 6c) at Curbar, Peak District, England

The arrival of the cold weather signals the start of hard gritstone ascents in Britain at the hands of Simon Moore, Sam Whittaker, Pete Hurley, Espen Samuelsen and Tobias Wolf