Dia Dhuit!! (irish for hello…..) It’s St.Paddys day next Thursday (17th), so we thought it would be fun to have a green beer or five at the Red Lion in Withington. We’re going to get there for around 7.30pm as I have a feeling it will be packed. In case you’ve never been http://www.redlionpubmanchester.co.uk/ and apparently there [...] [...]

This is an excerpt from Rock Over Climbing’s March Newsletter: “We are now sponsoring Manchester University Mountaineering Club, we have taken 10 of their keenest climbers and are providing them with a 12 week structured personal training plan headed by Grant Bateman and delivered by Grant, Simon, Tom and Ryan. The bouldering team will be representing [...] [...]

Coming up this Tuesday (9th Nov), Cotswolds on Deansgate are running a small lecture by Ron Fawcett. The man is a legend; back in the day when climbing was proper (protection was crap, ropes were crap, harnesses were ball stranglingly painful and beer mats were used for bouldering pads) Ron put [...] [...]

Honourable MUMC members, I’m sure you’re already planning spending the weekend getting that FUNKY outfit sorted for next weekends Funkmasters trip, but of course we all need that regular climbing fix! So don’t forget that this monday is the clubs weekly visit to ROCKOVER CLIMBING WALL ! ! For those of you who haven’t [...] [...]

Hello Guys and Gals, RIGHT. SO. This Thursday is the infamous MUMC pub crawl. Yes, you heard correctly- get excited. OK so here’s the plan… 7.00pm – Jabez Clegg (on Dover St behind the SU NatWest) 7.45pm – The Footage 8.15pm – The Pub 8.45pm – Revolution 9.15pm – Grand Central 9.45pm – The Font 10.30pm – SUBSPACE So, [...] [...]

If you’re interested in rock climbing and mountaineering, either as someone looking to try it out for the first time or as an experienced climber, and are looking for cheap climbing trips and plenty of people to climb with then joining the mountaineering club is the right way to go. We are a large yet [...] [...]

Right Kids, Because I’m on time for everything and never late anywhere this year’s hoodies are coming out incredibly early in the year as expected! So here are the designs, there should be two to pick from if I’ve managed to attach them correctly, and then the inside of your hood will be [...] [...]

As journal editor for this year it is my job to collect submissions to include for publication in the MUMC Journal. The journal has been produced almost every year since 1929, a year after the foundation of the club, and we are keen to see this tradition continue. To record the highs and lows of [...] [...]

Hello all, The coming May bank holiday weekend is drawing ever closer and this happily means that our yearly trip down to the sea cliffs of pembroke is near; I hope you are all incomprehensibly psyched for it. Let me first of all say that the pembroke skills session was held today and under the marvellous [...] [...]

I hope you’ve all had a great Easter holiday, and have managed some climbing during that time! Whether that be camping out under a crag in the Lakes, drinking copious amounts of red wind while bouldering before its even 12pm!!, resorting to pitiful self-promotion of a new E8 first ascent in the Moors (But really, good work Franco!) [...] [...]

Teams: Man 1 – 2nd (654 points) Man 2 – joint 8th (609 points) Individual Mens: Pete – joint 5th (228 points) Rob – 9th (226 points) Luke – joint 19th (212 points) Borg – 40th (203 points) Individual Womens: Rachel – joint 4th (200 points) Jo – joint 12th (194 points) Well done everyone, you did good. (Ta Rob for the results) [...]

Hi all The MUMC annual general meeting is set for Thursday the 18th of March at 7.30pm. It will be in Jabez Clegg. During the meeting reports will be given by various committee members and there will be an opportunity to vote in a new committee. Slightly nearer the time I will send out an email with [...] [...]