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 g...

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

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 le...

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 t...

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 fir...

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 for...

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 bein...

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 s...

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 dri...

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 work...