Route to the Sky

It was going to be the week of the first paraplegic ascent of the Old Man of Hoy. Alas it was not meant to be and this is as close as I...

What has been a mammoth effort of; 20+ hours of sewing from Dawn Brankley, some beautiful stainless steel craftsmanship by a helpful...

A quick reminder. The existing wheel rig has TWO big problems: 1. It won't stay in the right position 2. The wheels keep tearing up my...

Sad times. We added the third wheel to the rig and gave it a test but it became obvious that it really just does't work. So that leaves...

How hard could it be to drag a para up some rock? errrrrrr......... Scott Bradley and myself took a trip to Teggs Nose to try out the...

I'm an Engineer, a Mechanical Engineer. Its my job to problem solve. But I'm much happier crunching data than materials into a useful...

Climbing, Para style. A little insight into how the rig is set up at @Awesome Walls. We have 200m of rope donated by Petzl. The idea...

This might be an issue..... As a team we decided it would be wise to do a mini Old Man of Hoy. This became a very mini mini mini Old Man...

TRAINING Rig well and truly set up i was ready to start training. My local climbing wall, Awesome Walls Stockport, has been incredibly...

You don't need to be able to get yourself down the rope.....do you? I hadn't really thought about what I would do if something went wrong...

Naturally the place to begin any adventure is to actually meet the people you'll be doing it with! I won't tell you how nervous I was...

Climb The Old Man of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, a 137m tower of rock in the middle of the sea, whats so hard about that? Oh yeah, no...