Technique

A series of articles (short and very long) mostly published in magazines such as High, OTE, Climber and Climb.

Note: If you spot any mistakes, areas that need work (such as missing images), then please email me.

• Aid & Big wall

  • Beaks
  • Climbing On Fixed Heads
  • Daisy chain question
  • Four Thousand Pull Ups
  • Gorilla Aid
  • Haul Bags
  • Living On The Wall
  • Overreacher
  • Ten Tips for the Valley
  • Testing
  • The Fifi Hook
  • The Haul Line
  • Top Stepping

• Alpine

  • Hone your alpine psych

• Bivy

  • Avoiding the Big Sleep
  • Bivi Ledge Techniques
  • Bothy or Bivy bag
  • Getting Your Stove Past Check In
  • Night Time Terrors
  • Ode To The Piss Bottle*
  • Snow Shelters For Climbers
  • Tent Bound
  • The Bivi Kitchen

• Descent

  • Bad Anchors
  • Climber's Descent Tools
  • Damaged Ropes
  • Descent
  • Descent Strategy
  • Escape
  • Heavy Loads
  • Ice Anchors
  • Increasing Control Over Your Descender
  • Increasing Control Over Your Descender
  • Makeshift Descenders
  • Miscellaneous Descent Gear
  • Moving On The Rope
  • Pulling The Ropes
  • Rap Tat
  • Ropes
  • Setting Anchors
  • Snow Anchors
  • Stuck Ropes
  • The Rap Sling
  • The Ultimate Abseil Knot
  • Throwing The Ropes

• Food

  • A Healthy Alpine Menu
  • Breakfast
  • Day Food
  • Eating Tools
  • Extreme Noodles
  • How to melt snow the right way?
  • M&Ms, Pig Fat and Baby Food
  • Mountain Gylcemic Index
  • Nan
  • Power Gel
  • Smash
  • The Water Margin

• Photography

  • Action Photography For Idiots
  • Getting The Shot
  • In Focus
  • Paint It Black

• Rope Soloing

  • Rope soloing 101 part 1
  • Rope soloing 101 part 2
  • Rope soloing 101 part 3
  • Rope soloing 101 part 4

• Rack & hardware

  • Advanced Hex Placements
  • An Eye For A Winter Placement
  • Best in Cam
  • DIY Mixed Hook
  • Equalising Slings and Cords
  • Escaping From an Auto Locking Belay Plate
  • Five Ways To Get Your Screws To Stick
  • Get your ice hooks out
  • How Many Screwgates Should I Carry?
  • Ice Hook Racking
  • Making Do
  • Maximising Your Protection
  • Racking Your Nuts
  • Shifting Stubborn Gear
  • Should We Wear Helmets?
  • Sling Racking
  • Ten Ways to Increase Your Saftey Margin
  • The Andy Parkin Escape Kit
  • The Fifi Hook
  • The Snake Cord
  • Which nuts to buy
  • Winter Climbing Booster

• Ropework

  • Avoiding The Void
  • Back On The Ropes
  • Beyond The Figure Of Eight
  • Building The Best Winter Belay
  • Making A Cordlette And Making It Work
  • Moving Up And Down Fixed Ropes
  • Switching ends in a three
  • The Body Belay
  • The Clove Hitch
  • The Munter Hitch (Italian Hitch)
  • The Water Bowline
  • The Wonderful Alpine Butterfly
  • Tying The Perfect Figure Of Eight
  • Using Fixed Ropes

• Scotland

  • Staying Alive This Winter
  • Staying Alive This Winter

• Survival

  • How to avoid and avalanche
  • How to Avoid Frostbitten Feet
  • Staying Alive
  • Ultra Violet

• Systems

  • Basic Hauling Systems
  • Be A Lightweight
  • Climbing as a three
  • Climbing In Big Boots
  • Hauling Your Rucksack
  • No More Dropped Axes
  • North Wall Kit List (Summer)
  • Rucksack Hauling Strategies
  • Ten Ways To Speed Up Your Climbing
  • The Three Climber System
  • The Winter Leaders Pack
  • Winter Patagonia Kit List
  • Winter Soloing

• Winter Climbing tips

  • A top for luck
  • A top for luck
  • Dot to Dot
  • Grade Breakthrough
  • hooking
  • It's all in the feet
  • Lanyards
  • One Mitt sytem
  • Sawn off hooks
  • The arm test
  • Winter Slings