Tag: University of Manchester Hiking Club

Hiking Epic Rap : The Background

9 June 2014

So you've seen the Epic Hiking Rap, and now you want the background? Are you serious or is this a joke? I'll leave you to apply Poe's Law. Where did this start? For years, the University of Manchester Hiking Club had a tradition where a specific longstanding club member would write and present a poem […]

British Muzkol Expedition Departs for Tajikistan: Unclimbed Peaks Await

20 July 2013

Two local mountaineers from Greater Manchester, left this afternoon to attempt to summit an unclimbed 6000m peak in a remote area of Tajikistan. Jonathan "Jonny" Davey and John "JP" Proctor flew out from Manchester this afternoon bound for Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan – one of the former USSR republics of central Asian, starting a […]

Take My Journey to the big screen!

30 September 2012

In the fanfare of new camera equipment I forgot to mention that, ones of my clips I'm proudest of, got a display at one of the University Hiking Club open events: They already use it on their website and apparently like it so much they wanted to enter it for a competition haha. Whilst, in […]

Catbells, Maiden Moor and High Spy from Grange

9 April 2012

Several weeks ago I went on a walk with UMHC, up Catbells, Maiden Moor and High Spy from Grange: I've been up Catbells before – in fact my first ever walk with the club was up Catbells from Keswick, but this time, we were dropped off at Grange and walked along the valley before ascending […]

Conquerored: Beda Knott, Loughrigg Fell

20 February 2012

Last weekend, I went to Patterdale, in the Lake District on a weekend trip. It's nice to get out of Manchester, and even though the weather wasn't fantastic, there was still plenty to do. A more energetic group wanted to do St. Sunday's Crag, Fairfield, Helvellyn, Striding Edge, which sounded good and strenuous and exciting, […]

Langdale is lovely

17 February 2012

Last March I went hiking with UMHC to Langdale for the first time. This was the first time I did, Jack's Rake, Harrison Stickle, Pike o'Stickle, Pavey Ark etc. I made a bit of a video that day and it came out rather well. It did help that it was a beautiful day of course: […]

Snowdon is snowy but dry stone walls are an oxymoron

6 February 2012

Yesterday I climbed Snowdon; the highest mountain in Wales for the first time with UMHC. I'm not quite sure what's taken me so long to have a go at it, but I think it's status as a major tourist attraction was probably part of the story (Snowdon has a railway up the side and a […]

UMHC Helvellyn via Striding Edge 2011

27 September 2011

This weekend with UMHC I walked up Helvellyn via Striding Edge. I've done it before several times, once with my parents when I was 8 or something, and once, this summer, with a Hiking club friend, when we backpacked over Helvellyn in beautiful sunshine. It was a bit different this time.. the rain didn't get […]