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On the 22nd August it will be the AMC summer BBQ. This is the main social event of the year, and there will be fireworks and EVERYTHING!! So come along.

Posted on: 12-Aug-09 21:18

It's the annual AMC T-SHIRT competition!!!

Posted on: 06-May-09 16:26

I've finally got round to updating the calendar, so it has the next few months trips on it. If anyone would like to add an event to it, please email web@avon-mc.org.uk

Posted on: 29-Jan-09 09:03

All AMC memberships expired at the end of the 2008. Please contact Neil McEwan to renew your membership. A membership form can be downloaded here

Posted on: 10-Jan-09 22:47

Unfortunately Tim Emmett who booked as the speaker for the AMC Annual Dinner has had to pull out. We have a replacement - Steve Berry, the managing directory of Mountain Kingdoms.

Posted on: 02-Dec-08 23:25

Unfortunately all the T-Shirts have sold out. If you missed out I'm afraid you will need to wait until another batch is done in 2009

Posted on: 02-Dec-08 23:19

Tim Emmett (see www.timemmett.com) is booked as the after dinner speaker at the AMC Christmas Lunch.

Posted on: 17-Sep-08 11:10

A poll is open to vote on the new AMC logo!

Posted on: 25-Mar-08 19:06

The latest Cheddar access info from the BMC

Posted on: 25-Mar-08 10:25

Posted on: 23-Jan-08 11:46

1.8m High Cairns Hidden Under White Blanket:

Climbers topping out on The Ben and hoping to find the three newly erected 1.8m high navigation cairns are being warned that the snow is so deep the cairns are almost indistinguishable from other lumps and bumps.

From Bjorn Pohl's Blog: "Adam Ondra has returned to Spain and Siurana. This time he crushed Richard Simpson's bouldery two finger pocket horror, A Muerte, F9a, in 3 tries, for its fastest ascent to date." More Info: Bjorn Pohl's Blog: RELATED VIDEO BELOW: Cedric Lachat Climbs A Muerte F9a

Andy Turner and Dave MacLeod Repeat Neil Gresham's test-piece The Tempest:

Back in 2001 Neil Gresham caused an ethical hurricane by creating The Tempest, a savagely technical route in Glen Coe.

The route has now been repeated by Andy Turner and Dave MacLeod.

The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF), being held at the Showroom next weekend (12th-14th March), has now matured into its fifth successive year and is set to be the biggest and most diverse yet.

Simon Jacques gives us the low down.

Tonight's Friday Night Video is a 30 minute special feature from Pete Rhodes.

Pete has just returned from an epic adventure in Patagonia with George Ullrich and Mason Earle.

You can now download the BMC Annual Report for 2009.

The booklet Nothing Ventured...Balancing risks and benefits in the outdoors by Tim Gill is published by the English Outdoor Council and aimed at teachers and other children?s services professionals.

One of the biggest unclimbed objectives on the Antarctic Peninsula recently fell to experienced French alpinists and world travellers, Mathieu Cortial, Lionel Daudet and Patrick Wagnon.

The latest map in the award-winning British Mountain Map series covers the wild granite landscape of Dartmoor.

The first of the 2010 BMC supported expeditions to leave these shores received a thorough battering by Patagonian weather, thwarting an attempt to make the first free ascent of the East Face of Cerro Catedral in the Torres del Paine.