Following contacts with the undersigned, the MCC is pleased to announce that Deutsche Bank (Malta) Limited based in St. Julian’s have kindly made a contribution to the MCC bolting fund to assist the MCC in its efforts to develop rock-climbing in the Maltese Islands. Such a contribution is of course […]

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The Malta Climbing Club yesterday  tried out the wall on the ROCS Extreme stand at the popular AMITEX travel trade fair which is currently on at the MFCC.    The wall was built by Gregory Attard who is promoting a range of extreme holiday climbing packages – a new venture […]

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Its long been known that the Azure Window in Gozo has been steadily losing rock over the years as the wind and the waves ceaselessly pound it particularly during the winter months.  In fact, when scuba-diving around the window you can’t help noticing the huge boulders lying on the seabed […]

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The latest from Gozo, courtesy of a phone call this morning with Xavier Hancock of the GCA is that Tommy Caldwell and Sonnie Trotter have now identified a line to “besiege” on Gozo’s southern cliffs, just as they’d hoped to do. They’re based at an apartment in Xlendi, which is ideal […]

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I was walking along the cliffs in Gozo with Stevie Haston and Mark McGowan on the 30th March checking out possible new routes, as one does,  when I received an email on my Blackberry saying that a message had come in on the MCC website.  It was from Sonnie Trotter […]

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Expedition Leader Josef N. Grech is back in Malta following the Maltese team’s success on  Mt. Toubkal in North Africa.  Here’s a brief report: The Maltese team of climbers have returned home after successfully summitting the highest peak in the High Atlas, Mount Toubkal in Morocco. Towering at 4,167m (13,670 […]

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Expedition Leader Josef N. Grech reports that the Mount Toubkal Winter Expedition was successful, with the summit being reached on 17.03.12 at 3.25pm. “Climbers back at Base Camp, tired but happy after difficult  climb.”     An expedition report will follow soon, once the team have returned to Malta with […]

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Tomorrow, Thursday 15th March 2012, a group of Maltese climbers shall be undertaking a privately funded expedition to Morocco to climb Mt Toubkal, the highest peak in the High Atlas, Morocco. At 4167m (13,670ft) it is also the highest peak in North Africa. The team consists of 5 persons – […]

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An article written by Andrew Warrington with pics by David Simmonite has made it onto the cover of  the popular UK “Climber” Magazine.  A great effort and good publicity for Maltese climbing of course adding to a series of various promotional initiatives taken by the MCC itself,  the GCA and […]

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