So the first half of 2017 has been pretty awesome so far,  and super eventful to say the least. I think the best way to show what I’ve been up to is through some of the pictures that have been taken along the way. So here they are…   Kandersteg In Feb Andy Inglis and I headed out the Switzerland for a 10 day mixed/ice trip. We got a couple of awesome routes ticked before it got super warm! Andy on pitch one of Flying Circus Bust a MOVEEasy does it! Pic of me on the crux travers pitch   What a day, what a view, what a route!A gift for the walk out. Im in there somewhere.It g ..read more

So the last couple of weeks have been interesting. At the end of January I was helping with some on the hill training for Tiso staff on loads of awesome products from Scarpa, Grivel and Deuter. It was cool to get out on the hill with all the psyched staff and give them a bit of an insight as to what it’s like to use the gear for what it is made for. Although the weather was mostly pretty grim over the four-day course, we still managed to find some snow and “winter” to test the gear and keep things interesting. Then it was a quick blast home for the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival, at which I ..read more

So on the 2nd of January, I finally managed to get a winter route done in Scotland. The conditions have been super fickle this season, and if it’s not been in the plus 10ºc range, its been up to 100mph+ winds! Everyone I know that is into winter climbing in Scotland is finding it very hard to stay motivated with such temperamental conditions. We have had a handful of climbable winter days this year, but it is very much a season of grab it whilst it’s there, as whatever winter that decides to show its face has disappeared within a day or so. Guy on pitch one of “Open Heart” Guy and I played it ..read more

Its been a crazy 12 months since I left Canada, and I know what your all thinking whilst you read this, Yawwwwwwn, not another bloody bear related post! So I’m not going to bore you with one, but here’s a wee insight into what I’ve been up to recently. Me making my way up Hoargasm on the first ascent Rehab was slow to start with but I was soon back on two feet and in the mountains. I managed to salvage one more days climbing in Scotland at the end of the winter with Uisdean Hawthorn in Glen Coe but my leg and my head weren’t fully up to the task and we had to bail off a pretty spicy looking ne ..read more

22/02/16, No permission is given for any of this content to be used or copied for any other source without the writer’s (Greg Boswell) consent! This blog post was written two weeks after the event. It is now nearly 3 months since the encounter happened and I’ve decided to stick it online. Enjoy! It was nice to have a relaxed start to a climbing day. We knew it wasn’t go to be a long or particularly hard day, so we had a leisurely breakfast then Nick and I jumped in our hire Jeep and headed for the Ice-feilds Parkway. Our objective was to sus-out an approach to the amazing looking line of Dirty ..read more

Over the past four days, Nick and I have been into the Stanley Headwall three times. On Tuesday we drove to the Headwall car park early and ready for action. There had been more snow come down overnight than we had hoped, and the wind was blowing hard again. We looked at each other in the dark car park and as the jeep was getting buffeted by the wind, we both knew what the other was thinking, No Deal! A moody looking Stanley HeadwallNick trail bashing through the woods.An atmospheric Headwall with spindrift pouring down most of the routes. We put our seats back and decided to get a couple more ..read more

Ok so I’ve been in Canada for a week now, and its been, well… SNOWY. The day after I arrived it dumped with something like half a meter of snow overnight. This made for interesting mountain conditions. We attempted to put a trail into the base of a route we wanted to try later in the week, but got stopped by the avalanche gate, as they were bombing the slopes around where we wanted to go to protect the road and vehicles below. So it was time for plan B, off to “The Cave”. I met up with Raf Andronowski at the new training wall that he, and a bunch of other locals have pulled together and built ..read more

There’s been a big gap since I last wrote a blog post, and a lot has happened since then. My winter season died off fairly rapidly after climbing Banana Wall. I felt it best to end on a high, and I was well and truly mentally drained after a few weeks of demanding routes in the Scottish winter wonderland. It was time for the rock and I was also ready to ride my bike! The sunset over Lac d’Annecy reflecting in my van window I did a lot of mountain biking over the summer, and even though Mhairi and I headed off to France for 5 weeks with the steeds loaded into the van, I was still very psyched t ..read more

Back in December 2013 I walked into Coire an Lochain with Dougie (the yellow ranger) Russell to try a particularly interesting looking route. It was a route that I had spied with Guy two seasons previously when we were walking in to do something else in the coire. From that day it had been niggling away in my mind as something I had to have a go at! So I geared up below the face and eventually built up the courage to start up the route. Unfortunately this courage didn’t last long and after about 8m of climbing, I decided to down climb and save the onsight attempt for another day. It just looke ..read more

Sunday around 6pm: I jumped in my girlfriend’s brother’s pickup which he had lent me and headed for Inverness. After changing plans half a dozen times over the weekend for our intended day out on Monday, finally Neil Adams’ photos of the Godfather on Beinn Bhan that popped up on Facebook around lunchtime sealed the deal. It was a no brainer! I picked Guy up in Inverness and we headed on to Applecross to meet up with Uisdean Hawthorn, who was also psyched to join in on some big new route adventures! As we put up our 5 star accommodation under the glow of the trucks headlights, the snow was comi ..read more