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The film The Bells!, featuring 74-year-old British climber Rob Matheson repeating 'The bells, The bells!', one of the most fearsome trad climbs in Great Britain. Located on North Stack Wall at Gogarth, it was first ascended in 1980 by John Redhead.

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...

British climber Emma Twyford has repeated 'Yma O Hyd', the E10 7a in the Ogwen Valley, north wales.

British rock climber James Pearson has repeated 'Crac yr Meistri' (Master’s Crack), the E9 trad climb in the Nant Peris Quarry in the Llanberis Pass, Wales. Established by James McHaffie in 2022, it was repeated by Angus Kille later that year. Pearson reports.

On 9 May 2025 Belgian rock climber Anak Verhoeven made the first female ascent of 'Rainshadow' (9a) at Malham Cove in England.

Yesterday 74-year-old British climber Rob Matheson made a rare repeat of 'The Bells, The Bells!', one of the most fearsome trad climbs in Great Britain. Located on North Stack Wall at Gogarth, it was first ascended in 1980 by John Redhead.

The Brit Rock video of Neil Dickson onsighting 'The Hollowman' (E8 6c) at Gogarth in north wales in 2008. Even by today's standards this is considered one of the most impressive onsight ascents of a British trad route.

British climber Franco Cookson has made the first ascent of The Dewin Stone, a 9a+ slab at Twll Mawr in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in north wales.

At Rhoscolyn on the island of Anglesey in north wales Caroline Ciavaldini has repeated the E9 trad climb 'Olwen' while her husband James Pearson has repeated the E10 'Prisoners of the sun'.

The 2022 Brit Rock Film Tour is available to stream from 3 to 6 November only, on the platform Film Festival Flix. The program contains three films, Queen Lines featuring Anna Hazelnutt, Ephemeral featuring Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell, and Sea to Summit with Jacob Cook, Bronwyn Hodgins, Angela Vanwiemeersch,...

Both Anna Hazlett and Tom Randall have repeated The Quarryman, the Johnny Dawes classic located in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in north wales.

The Big Bang follows Emma Twyford and her quest to repeat Big Bang at Lower Pen Trwyn in north wales. In sending the route in September 2019 she became the first British woman to climb 9a.

British rock climber James Taylor has made the first ascent of Prisoners of the Sun, an impressively difficult and dangerous E10 7a trad climb at Rhoscolyn on Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales.

Interview with British rock climber Ben Moon, one of the world’s greatest rock climbers throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s with landmark first ascents such one of Britain’s first 8a, Statement of Youth at Lower Pen Trwyn in Wales and Hubble at Raven Tor, hailed as the world’s first 8c+...

British rock climber Hazel Findlay has repeated the classic Johnny Dawes testpiece The Quarryman in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in north wales.

The video portrait of Britain’s Hazel Findlay, one of the strongest and most versatile climbers in the world.