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Jim Perrin protests in prose to protect Pumlumon
Jim Perrin..the caped crusader: Tom Hutton Jim Perrin, writer and climber, led over 250 people on a walk up into the Pumlumon mountain range, in Mid Wales, to protest about the possible desecration of...
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Welsh climber Ben Winteringham killed in Morocco
Ben Wintringham:Photo ChaplogNorth Wales based climber and owner of the now defunct Wintergear outdoor equipment manufacturer, Ben Wintringham,has been killed in an abseiling accident in Morocco. Ben,...
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Tony Howard's Troll Wall..Review
Like most climbers who came into the game in the 1970's and 80's, my first encounter with the name Troll in a climbing context was when I was casually flicking through the pages of the UK climbing...
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Something in the air
Mark Weir outside The Honister Slate MineThe first programme in the current BBC4 series National Park Stories, brought into sharp relief the conflicting interests which inevitably are brought into...
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Andy Kirkpatrick's Cold Wars..Review
There's room at the top they are telling you still,But first you must learn how to smile as you kill.John LennonFirst of all a confession. In recent years I have become increasingly bored with what has...
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A selection of 'Crow' imports
Below you'll find a selection of popular features and reviews which have been imported from To Hatch a Crow, having featured on the site in the past 18 months.It is part of a re-jig of the...
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Glyn Davies' 'Welsh Light'...review
Virginal Explosion Having just had the pleasure of casting my eyes over renowned landscape photographer, Glyn Davies' eagerly anticipated latest collective works - Welsh Light - it is fair to say from...
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Bernat's Horse
Montserrat! The serrated mountain, rises from the plains 40 miles north-west of Barcelona. It is less than 5,000ft. high and three or four miles long. The rock is a very firm conglomerate. Seen from...
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Ben Nicholson's Cornwall
BBC4′s documentary, The Art of Cornwall, explored how the small colony of artists in St Ives became as important as Paris or London during a golden creative period between the 1920s and 1960s. The...
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Gamekeeper turned poacher: Nick Bullock's Echoes review
Original photos: Nick Bullock/Vertebrate/Mountain EquipmentIt seems standard practice these days,for climbing autobiographies to kick off proceedings with an exciting prologue chapter. A device I...
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Rawalpindi to Rawtenstall
On September 24, 1961 I was ready to start the 7,000 mile journey by motor-bike from Rawalpindi to the UK (After the Trivor expedition). After ten days' preparation I had got the necessary visa for...
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Twelve Julys
David Craig leads Dexter Wall with creator Bill Peascod on belay.June ceases to flame and shine with its precise sting like a burning-glass. The huge dry wind that rushed up Wasdale and blew grit into...
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Landscape and identity: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines
My plan when I started this blog back in 2009 was to use it to as a platform on which to explore the connections that exist between landscape and identity. Such connections are abstract and...
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Goodbye David Hooper
Photo Ben BallNo apologies for postponing this weeks planned article to offer a brief tribute to a much loved climbing friend to so many, David Hooper. Like many people, I first came across Dave on the...
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Travels with a donkey
BOOM— a plume of water shot 50ft. into the air. Kelly beamed all over his face. BOOM —the second depth charge went off. Kelly's beam turned black as the expected trout failed to surface."Not enough...
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The Crystal Spirit: Karen Darke's Boundless review.
But the thing that I saw in your faceNo power can disinherit:No bomb that ever burstShatters the crystal spirit.George OrwellHanging around above the Lledr Valley in North Wales yesterday, I glanced up...
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Some mysterious promised land
Once I met a man on the Migneint. The shock to each of us was almost disabling. Then he changed course and made haste to intercept me. I went forward with mixed feelings since I could see at a distance...
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An ascent of Haskett Gully
IT was getting towards the end of our Easter holiday at Buttermere, and I had still not wormed out of Haskett-Smith the whereabouts of a good new climb which he and Tucker had discovered two years...
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Steve Ashton's bumper mountaineering eBook reviewed
The Ages of Ashton: From Alpine virgin to Sheffield underworld hitman. For those of us who remember the late lamented High magazine,one name which stood out from its cast list of regulars was the one...
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The Iceman cometh
It is August 2002. Myself and my partner, Jude Calvert-Toulmin, are in The Heights Bar in Llanberis, having been to do an on-line interview with John Redhead. It’s been a long day, but we are relaxing...
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