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Ireland has long remained off the radar of the international climbing scene, yet it is home to some of the best trad climbing in Europe. David Flanagan, author of the new guidebook Rock Climbing In Ireland, highlights some of the best climbing areas in Eire and Northern Ireland
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14 NORTH BY NORTHEAST
A photographic essay by Rudy Ceria on the world class granite bouldering found on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea, halfway between Finland and Sweden
28 THE GOWER REVIVAL
The Gower peninsula in South Wales has seen a flurry of development over the past decade. As a result, it has become one of the UK’s finest sport climbing areas. Local activist Simon Rawlinson introduces a selection of the best crags and routes
34 WHERE THE WILD THINGS GO Tom Richardson explores western Mongolia’s Altai Tavan Bogd mountains, one of the most remote and alluring massifs in the Greater Ranges
46 STEVE MCCLURE
STYLE VERSUS SUBSTANCE
Steve McClure climbs in France’s Verdon Gorge to explore the idea that when it comes to big routes, the substance of the climb means rather more than the style in which it’s done
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