This blog post has been a long time in the making. As many of my readers will know, I’m a rock climber. However, I don’t think I’ve said much about my climbing background before. I started around 2009, while we were living in the UK, when a German colleague wanted to start climbing and was looking for a partner. And of all people he was … Continue reading Rock Climbing in Malta
Going back a bit with today’s photos, from late summer and autumn last year, and a couple separate climbing outings with Lara and Ken. Whenever I know we’re going to be in three, I like to take a camera with me, usually the small mirrorless one, as I know there will be opportunity to use it (while the other two are climbing and belaying respectively). … Continue reading Climbing with Lara
I’ve been meaning to share these photos for a while, but things conspired over the last several weeks to derail most of our plans. Now I’m finally catching up on things, so here we are, with a series of photos I took on a relatively recent climbing outing. The crag is known as Garbage Wall, next to Blind Cave, both of which had a number … Continue reading Christina Climbing at Garbage Wall
Several months ago, before the pandemic hit, my friend’s nephew Pete was on the island, visiting. We had been wanting to get him to try climbing for a while, so we took him to Wied il-Għasel and the Disney-themed routes at Scouts Buttress. As so often happens in winter on this island, the day was beautiful, the light gorgeous, and in short we were having … Continue reading Climbing with Pete
With the developing COVID-19 situation, it feels like these photos are from ages ago, when in fact it has only been a few short weeks. And the way things are going it seems like this kind of thing is going to be off the table for a long time. Over the last few days it seems like the only articles I’m reading about climbing (and … Continue reading Climbing in Lapsi
If you’ve been wondering at the relative silence on this blog over the past couple weeks, this is why. The weather has been mostly good, if a bit colder than usual, so I’ve been doing as much climbing as I can (and as my partners’ schedules allow). Highlights include sending two trad routes I had not done before, and separately introducing a couple friends … Continue reading Climbing the Babu Multi-Pitches
Things have been a little hectic lately, so I’m barely keeping up with my blog posts. I meant to write another post yesterday, but I guess that will have to wait. Instead, today I’m back with my usual throwback series, finally sharing the final photo from last year. The very tail-end of last year, that is. I’m sure I’ve said many times that the cooler … Continue reading View from Jacobs Walls
I’m finally nearing the end of the set of photos from last year that I still had to blog about. Just the one I’m sharing today and another climbing photo from the Christmas holidays. This is from the start of winter in the lovely valley of Wied il-Għasel in Mosta. As it happens, I was at this very place last Sunday, climbing the same route, … Continue reading Hendrik on Medical Incision
I must say I haven’t been doing much photography lately, so this week’s recent photo goes back a couple of months to a climbing session in Blind Cave / Garbage Wall on the Victoria Lines. I have already shared a few photos from this session, if you want to take a look. This time the photos are of my friend Hendrik-Jan leading the route Skappatura … Continue reading Hendrik Leading Skappatura Trad
Something special came through the post today. Over the last few years I have been slowly collecting every guidebook that has been published about climbing in Malta. I was lucky enough to find a reasonably priced clean copy in good condition of this book that was printed three times from 1949 to 1960. It has taken some time, as copies of this title are not … Continue reading Walks and Climbs in Malta
This summer doesn’t seem to be like others in the last few years. Maybe I have been on this rock too long already, and the many little annoyances are making themselves felt. Maybe it’s the never-abating traffic. Or perhaps it’s climate change and what seems to be a hotter-than-usual summer. And it’s not like I enjoyed our summer here before. I guess what I’m saying … Continue reading Matrix on Bird’s Nest Wall Direct
Lately things have conspired to keep me inside, so I’m sharing a photo from a few weeks ago, on a climbing outing in Wied Babu. Unusually there were three of us on this outing, so I took advantage of the additional downtime to take some photos. This is Hendrik-Jan tackling The Flying Arête, a very memorable 6b+ route. Continue reading Hendrik on The Flying Arête
Muddy Boots 