Northumbrian Mountaineering Club

Don't miss our next Winter talk - next Tuesday Franco Cookson will be filling us in on his latest doomed quests from the farthest corners of the UK to the mythically remote Mirror Wall in East Greenland!

Join us on Tuesday 23rd Jan - 7pm for a 7.30pm start at the Brinkburn Street Brewery, Bar & Kitchen

NMC AGM - tomorrow evening! All welcome, please come along!

Our Winter talks start next Wednesday 10th Jan! Don't miss this brilliant event with climbing power couple and force to be reckoned with - Anna Taylor and Mat Wright! They will be presenting their latest film and bringing us up to date on their latest climbing exploits.

Wednesday 10th January - 7pm for a 7.30pm start at the Brinkburn Street Brewery, Bar & Kitchen

County Climber Summer 2023 ☀️ -

County Climber Summer 2023 ☀️

Excellent weekend climbing up in the Cairngorms last week! Next up - Borrowdale 👌🏻

We’re off to Aviemore this weekend for our second summer meet of the year - 🤞🏻this sunny weather continues!!

A wonderfully sunny weekend was had last weekend on the Dave Roberts New Members Meet in Langdale - activities included plenty of trad climbing (single pitch, multipitch and first leads!), bouldering in Eskdale, fell running, river swimming and valley walking!
Next up we have Cairngorms, Borrowdale and Mountain First Aid - check your NMC emails for details….

From the sea cliffs of Pembroke to the mountain crags of the Cairngorms, from lead climbing skills to outdoor first aid - the summer meets list 2023 has been emailed out to all members this morning! Interested in joining? Check out the link…

It’s officially British Summer Time which means the return of outdoor Wednesday evenings from next Wednesday 5th April! See ‘NMC Chat’ for crag details - our summer weekend meets list is having the final touches before publication in the next week or two… 🥳

It's time to reveal our next winter speaker! will be sharing tales of adventure from his most recent trip to the ‘Edge of the World’ - the St Kilda archipelago and other remote islands off Scotland.

You don't want to miss this one!!! Details in our bio

It’s all go on the first of the season NMC Winter meet in the cairngorms. Fiachaill ridge well iced and a 50 mile an hour wind. What’s not to like!?

"Not A Hope in Hoy" hits YouTube tonight!

I'd be grateful if you could all share the film link or post anywhere you feel relevant :) It's a fun film for climbers and non-climbers alike and tells a great story of our attempt at the hardest sea cliff climb in the world, "The Longhope" E10 on Hoy.

https://youtu.be/-5O_iysYwj0

NMC hosted the incredible for the NMC winter lecture series. It was a a fab evening hearing about mind blowing achievements. Anna proves we have huge scope for adventure right on our doorstep if you have the imagination. Even if it does rain a lot 🤣 great to meet too we wish you well for your next adventure. Of course they didn’t get let out until they had a copy of No Nobler County…of course!

It's the BMC North East Area Meeting and AGM this evening (Thursday 17th November) from 19:00 upstairs at Brinkburn St. Brewery, Ouseburn, Newcastle (NE6 1NW) and on Zoom (link in event details below).
The region is looking for an Access Representative covering Northumberland & Tyne & Wear as Steve Blake is stepping down after several years of hugely beneficial service. If you can help, please attend the meeting or get in touch.
More event details

BMC Community Area Meetings are run by volunteers and provide an opportunity for you to discuss issues and influence decisions affecting climbers and walkers locally and nationally. All are welcome.

Thank you for a brilliant talk last Thursday - it was great to hear about your journey from miner's strikes to remote Patagonia, and we loved seeing club member .curtis.104 make it into the slides!

Don't miss our next talk on the 22nd Nov with !

The first 2022 winter lecture was a stellar success. Thanks all for supporting the club and giving so generously to The National Park Mountain Rescue. Andy’s talk was fantastic full of anecdote, incredible images and laughter. Afterwards Andy spoke of his work as patron of the Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust who provide subsidised courses for 18-30yr olds to get into the mountains. Please look them up!

County Climber Autumn 2022 🍁 -

County Climber Autumn 2022 🍁

Anna Taylor, renowned hard trad soloist will be speaking at the Brinkburn Brewery as part of our Winter Lecture series. We wanted a focus on professional women climbers who are currently making a name for themselves and successfully carving out a niche in what is still a male dominated world. Anna will talk about her route into climbing and what inspires her to do hard solo ascents and go on expeditions to break new ground and explore. Recently she has completed an epic home grown challenge to cycle, walk and run over 2000km while climbing all the routes in the boom Mountain Rock. Join us to meet Anna and hear the stories behind the headlines. Why not combine with a climb across the road and some lovely food at the venue. All for free! Donations to the regional Mountain Rescue teams.

Andy Cave 10th November 7:30pm Tales of the unexpected: A climbing life: the people, the places, the climbs.
Andy Cave
Climber, author and raconteur Andy Cave discovered climbing in 1983 and it’s been a non-stop adventure since.
Andy shares some iconic images and video to help shed light on the special people, the places and the climbs from almost 40 years of adventure. Rock, ice and choss - he’s savoured it all!
Signed book available.

The NMC Winter Lectures will be free events for all with donations welcomed for the Mountain Rescue Charities!

Still a few spaces left on our Summer Langdale meet - for those of you that don't know this is a fantastic meet in the brilliantly situated Raven Crag Cottage (a crawl away from the old dungeon gill!). The sunshine has been ordered and we're gonna have a BBQ 🌞😋🍔
Members get in touch if you'd like to come along!

A selection of recent photos from some of our members making the most of the winter/spring weather. Our last winter meet is 31st of March in the famous alpine-style CIC Hut.

Wednesday Outdoor meets kick of again on the 6th of April & weekend rock meets start in May - bring it on! 👊👊👊

This International Women's Day we're remembering all the incredible women who helped found the NMC! The fact that these women were founding members of our climbing club more than 75 years ago, in a sport that, like many others, still suffers from under-representation of women - is a source of constant awe and inspiration for me.

Unfortunately the remaining founding members of the NMC passed away in 2019. Why not find out more about these inspiring women of the NMC by reading our article with Joan and Muriel here: stories.thenmc.org.uk/muriel-and-joan or our remembrances of Peggie, Lily and Muriel's in the Winter 2019 edition of County Climber: www.thenmc.org.uk/CountyClimber/

Thank you to all the amazing women in the NMC and further afield - keep climbing!

Ciara, NMC President