FRI NIGHT VID: Alexandre Buisse - Why Do We Climb?
This week's Friday Night Video is an audio and visual presentation from Alexandre Buisse.
Alexandre won the ShAFF Adventure Shot photography competition last week with this stunning collection of images.

Scottish Winter Conditions: Full Report 11
This is the eleventh of our regular series of Scottish winter conditions updates from Dan Goodwin of MountainPlan.com.
"It seemed over the last week to take a turn to more traditional conditions in the Highlands with some heavy gusts and spindrift in the Northern Corries on Saturday and a walk in to the Ben on Sunday with hoods up in the pouring rain..."

Dirty Dry-Tooler Named and Shamed
There has been much debate on the UKC forums of late concerning the climbing of winter routes when they are not white. Yes. It's true and you had better believe it...
An anonymous source has written to UKC expressing outrage... FULL PHOTO REPORT

VIDEO: Earl Crag Action - Buys and Whittaker
Pete Whittaker and Jordan Buys have been active at Earl Crag, with a new E7 and a repeat of French Duke - E9.
"We could hardly bear to look as he clawed his way up the final few moves, facing a certain ground fall from 10 metres..."

The Nevis Partnership is No More
The Nevis Partnership to cease operations due to funding cuts:
“While I fully appreciate the current squeeze on funding will create casualties, I'm also concerned that Ben Nevis and Glen Nevis attract many thousands of visitors from around the world to Lochaber..."
