MCC in Gozo – Rael repeats Haston 7c and 8a routes
Last weekend saw many MCC members travel to Gozo to check out some of the new routes as well as to escape the election fever that gripped Malta. The weather was perfect so a great time was had by all. While most of the club members headed for Wied Mielah […]
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New climbing area opens at Sant’ Antnin Family Park
The MCC has been very busy over the past few weeks. Apart from other things, we’ve helped the management of the newly opened Sant’ Antnin Family Park just outside Marsascala create a climbing facility where before there was only crumbly stone at the side of the car park. Given […]
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Rael repeats Bold Corona F8a!
News has been received that Spanish climber Rael Saez Candelas has repeated ” Bold Corona” F8a on the 27th January in McCarthy’s Cave at Ghar Lapsi. Rael felt that it was a good idea to also write about this ascent as, in a way, it adds another small footnote […]
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UPDATE: “The Crossing” finally repeated after 13 years – UPDATE
SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE. “The Crossing” is arguably THE most impressive route at Ghar Lapsi. A project of John Moulding, a talented (and outspoken) British climber who in the 80s and early 90s put up some of the hardest routes in Malta and Gozo at the time such as “Chasin […]
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Climbers represented at Natura 2000 Information meetings
Continued access to the established climbing areas in Malta and Gozo, as well as to areas that have not yet been developed, is fundamental to the future of our sport. Many of these areas fall within the 34 sites which have been identified as Natura 2000 ”Special Areas of Conservation” […]
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ASSIST THE MALTA CLIMBING CLUB TO PROMOTE ITS AIMS.
I WOULD LIKE TO APPEAL TO MEMBERS OF THE MCC TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING THE CLUB BY RENEWING THEIR MEMBERSHIP FOR 2013. THIS CAN BE DONE ONLINE BY GOING TO THE “JOIN THE CLUB” TAB ON THIS SITE (www.maltaclimbingclub.com/join-the-club-2/ ) or by sending a cheque for EUR10 payable to the Malta Climbing […]
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Former president of the British Mountaineering Council dies
The Malta Climbing Club would like to express its deepest condolences to the wife and family of the former president of the British Mountaineering Council Derek Walker who has passed at the age of 76 as a result of pancreatic cancer. “Derek began mountain walking in 1954 and took up […]
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New F8a route at Dahlet Qorrot redpointed today by Stevie Haston
Just got back from a weekend in Gozo when MCC members climbed at Kercem slabs, Ghajn Abdul and today, tried out some of the new routes at Dahlet Qorrot put up by Stevie Haston over the past few weeks. Highlight of the day was certainly Stevie’s redpoint of his new […]
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BMC International Sea Cliff Climbing Meet May 2013
Following our contacts with the British Mountaineering Council over the past months, we have received an invitation to send TWO climbers to attend the BMC International Sea Cliff Climbing Meet in Cornwall in May this year. Such meets “are a truly unique experience. They are a great opportunity to make […]
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More bolting news….courtesy of Laurence Gouault Haston
I’ve reported earlier that with the help of the MCC, Stevie Haston has been developing some major new routes in the Dahlet Qorrot area. His wife Laurence, who is an excellent climber and has climbed 5.13b/ F8a herself, as well as being an accomplished professional photographer, is currently in Malta […]
