Hedera Helix, site for all seasons, words and pictures, walking, climbing, travel with and without the campervan, Norway to Namibia, Patagonia to the Agean. Archives of rock climbing in the '60s, grumpy old climbers and climbing route descriptions on Irish sea cliffs, picture gallery and more. See it all.

And just what are the Grumpies staring at? Well, I can tell you, it's a couple of very fit young ladies making short work of routes that they couldn't get up while continually chattering about their boyfriends.

This was Vallon Sourn, sandbag capital of undergraded climbing near Chateauvert, a rather polished French crag in Provence that destroyed our illusion that we were solid middle range climbers active up to 6c (with a bit of a following wind).

 

Let it not be said that we only show punchy newsworthy images on this page. Here is a moody november B&W from Chris's gallery and on mouse over, a moody castle in Spain. Check it out for even more modest gems of mine and Suzies artistic interpretations.

 

Lots of New New New on the Hedera Helix pages. Travel to obscure (and popular) bits of France and Spain with Suzy, me and the campervan for some mountain walking. Visit our climbing page to see what the Grumpies have been up to, and did I mention Grumpies? Check out their page. They are all off to the Greek island of Kalymnos soon for some climbing so expect more scandalous images. Patagonia, where I went climbing when I was nebbut a lad, well we went back for a second look and it was just as impressive as the first look. And there are other spooky places to peep into, strange stone circles on the Orkney islands and just another amazingly strange place even before the banks went down without trace, Iceland. Archive gallery updated.

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