John Orr Guiding

Underdeveloped is to Irish climbing what Hard Grit is to Peak grit climbing. It came out in the mid 2000’s whilst I was at university in...

Posted on November 19, 2015 As November arrived and the Indian summer waned I prepared myself for a month of rain and wind having not pla...

Posted on November 19, 2015 Throughout the summer months a lot of what I did in work and when I was out in the mountains and by the sea w...

Posted on October 24, 2015 📷 Lundy Lights The Southwest, a fabled area of Cornish granite sea cliffs, North Devonian adventure climbing ...

Posted on October 13, 2015 Lying in the warm sunshine at the top of Craig yr Ysfa looking out over Wales one could be mistaken for thinki...

Posted on June 17, 2015 📷 The Promised Land! I pull into the top crack of The Promised Land as the evening sun bathes the crag in golden...

Posted on June 13, 2015 One final unpack and repack and I was off to Bavaria to see out my winter season on skis. The winter season had b...

Posted on March 6, 2015 Being in the Alps at the start of January I kept an eye on conditions on Scotland to see what people had been up ...

From blue skies and steep ice in Canada it was back to hillwalking in North Wales in some rather wet and wild weather. Its the variety of...

Posted on February 18, 2015 Terminator, Stanley Headwall, Polar Circus, Sea of Vapours…these were all routes I had heard of over the year...

Posted on February 15, 2015 I’ve come to the conclusion that blogging is hard work and the longer you leave it the harder it is to write ...

Posted on June 9, 2014 Walking along the top of Fairhead seven years ago I was amazed at how many climbers had turned up for the Fairhead...

Posted on May 27, 2014 This year seems to have flown by so fast already. Its now the end of May, the evenings are light and North Wales i...

Posted on February 5, 2014 After what was an incredible summer of rock climbing in the UK I was nearly reluctant to leave the UK and head...

Posted on October 29, 2013 Golden sandy beaches, clear blue water, soaring Golden Eagles, screaching Peregrines, darting and diving seabi...

Posted on October 26, 2013 The winter traverse of the Cuillin Ridge back in December had left me blown away with the beauty of Skye and t...

Posted on July 31, 2013 I left Scotland at the start of March with a view to spending a month in Wales rock climbing before I headed off ...

Posted on July 31, 2013 From the ridiculous to the sublime…I think that fairly well sums up the couple of months I spent in Scotland this...

Posted on December 17, 2012 A winter traverse of the Cuillin Ridge on Skye, undoubtedly the greatest mountaineering route in the UK, take...

Posted on November 28, 2012 As the Autumn draws to a close and Winter begins to arrive, it’s usually a good time to escape the UK and hea...