Lucy Mitchell is a climber from Northern Ireland (Belfast) and unbeknownst to much of the UK climbing community, is racking up one of the most impressive sport tick lists by a UK female climber. Ever. She recently returned from Spain where she made an ascent of Fish Eye 8c in just 7 days. “I tried it once last May/April […]
9a by the age of 22 for UK climbers is fast becoming the gold standard to aspire to. No longer the realms of “professional full-timers only” we have a chat to Will Smith about Era Vella, indoor replicas and training for outdoor performance. Will is a 22 year old climber who in recent times has […]
Andy Burgess started training with Lattice earlier this year as a boulderer. Andy recently climbed Mecca 8b+ just under 1 year after he sent his first sport 7b+. Andy has climbed up to 8a bouldering but not much else other than that 7b+ sport climbing before approaching Lattice for training. A remarkably quick progression, we […]
I think most people would agree that Adam Ondra has a fairly respectable ticklist, but just how good is it? We thought it’d be interesting to dig in to his 8a.nu routes scorecard in a bit more detail to see if we could work out a secret trick to climbing 9b+ (spolier: there is no secret […]
Will Bosi recently became the youngest Britain to climb 9a, which is really impressive, but in reality it’s just one facet of his climbing. He’s also climbed V14, podium-placed in multiple European Youth Cup events and won many of the UK Lead and Boulder Comps. These kind of accolades however, often overshadow the hard work […]