Attendees: Ethan McQuaid, Adam Walker, Justin Boynton, Rich Buckley, Dez Hajdu, Will Westwood, Geoff Goh, Rick Hardy. This year's annual AMC alps trip was an interesting and in some ways, a sad one, with the week being dominated by a relentless heatwave, making the high mountains more dangerous than they already are. For almost the entire week, the freezing level hovered above 4,000m, leaving glaciers actively melting and snow slopes rapidly deteriorating. To make matters w

The May bank holiday rolled around and that meant one thing – it was time for the AMC to make the trip down to Cornwall for some sea cliff adventures. 17 of us set off to St Just for a weekend of climbing, walking, pasties and pints in the rugby club. The action kicked off on the Friday with Anthony and Jack making it down early and enjoying a sunny afternoon at Bosigran where they ticked off Venusburg in the sunshine. Meanwhile myself, Dan and Geoff made a quick stop off at

It’s often said that North Wales offers some of the greatest diversity of climbing in the UK, and despite an unwelcome visitor in the form of Storm Dave, we certainly put that claim to the test. Over the course of the trip we climbed on limestone, slate, rhyolite, and dolerite, and covered just about every activity going, including trad, sport, bouldering, walking, scrambling and even a bit of running. We were staying at the NLMC guest barn in Capel Curig, which proved to be