Bouldering on bullet holes: Kingsdown, Kent
Crag X Climbing Sites
It wasn’t long after I joined the Exploration Group of North Somerset before main man Keith Williams would whisk me away to some godforsaken pile of choss – normally in the Wye Valley. I didn’t know where I was being taken, and I still don’t know where I went. The crags weren’t all bad though, cue Portishead Quarry.
Here’s a rag-tag bunch of places, otherwise homeless on my website.
La Digue, Seychelles
Yes, paradise. I ought to go through my hand-drawn diagrams and attempt to construct a La Digue topo some time. That will ‘complement’ all the glossy best-sellers that will no doubt have been published since our hols there in 1989! Meantime here are some of the old slide pics I salvaged.
Monsieur Renee (E5 5c). Pic: Beverley Crocker
Anse l’Amour
The E3 5b arete of The Jungle has Ears. The immaculate face to the right is indeed Face, an E7 6b solo. Pic: Beverley Crocker
The only public transport on La Digue; after all no one’s in a rush.
Coco de Mer
Coco de Mer (E5 6a) Pic: Beverley Crocker
Desert Island Digits is an article on climbing on La Digue published in Climber & Hillwalker in 1990 (pics by Beverley & Martin Crocker)
Corn Ddu from Pen-y-Fan Pic: Martin Crocker