Nice travel library concept at Tallinn bus station. Pick a book and return it to shelves at another station in Estonia.

Vilnius. Hill of Three Crosses, Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights and kugelis.

BMC Announce Losses of £625,000 for 2023: The British Mountaineering Council has published an open letter from the CEO, Paul Ratcliffe, in which it has announced losses of £625,000 for the financial year 2023. ukclimbing.com/news/2024/05/b…

Šaltibarščiai, cepelinai, blynai and Soviet donuts. Twice here in Lithuania we've been warned that we ordered too much food...

Crying at this very blunt Google Lens translation of a packet of Lithuanian cheese.

'Urban Uprising helps at-risk and underprivileged young people to access climbing... helping to make the sport more inclusive in the city and beyond.'
Check out Natalie Berry article for The Climbing Hangar about the climbing scene in Edinburgh
theclimbinghangar.com/blog/a-short-h…

The beautiful Curonian Spit, Lithuania. Searching for washed-up amber. Views across the (closed) border to Kaliningrad, picking up Russian phone network.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania.

Climbers 🧗‍♂️ at indoor climbing walls are breathing in especially high levels of dust containing rubber additives, including some known to be toxic

The problem is that the soles of climbing boots are usually made of similar materials as car tyres 🛞

newscientist.com/article/242842…

Stéphane Pennequin has meticulously curated a museum of climbing gear in his own home, but despite his dedication to detail, he can't quite put a number to his collection. 'Let's just say a big suitcase is too small, and a semi-trailer is a bit too big.'ukclimbing.com/articles/featu…

Petition to make Alex Honnold a regular IFSC World Cup co-commentator.

Wrote a short history of Edinburgh's small but active (and growing) climbing scene for the new Climbing Hangar centre. Interesting to find out via my research that I regularly run around the burial site of Harold Raeburn (Everest 1921 exped leader)! theclimbinghangar.com/blog/a-short-h…

London's First Ever Mountain Marathon: If you're raising money for a charity that helps introduce young people from the city to the mountains, what better way to do it that bringing a mountain to the city..? ukclimbing.com/articles/featu…

Didn't realise that the Toby Roberts Guardian interview was in The Observer yesterday. Thanks Dave Saunders for the photo.

Funny how Otter makes up two men's names for two female speakers but gets very country-specific names and their spellings correct based on the topic.

I went to hang out with the U12 girls football team who had an unbeaten season against the boys in their league.

Plus I spoke to a lot of experts about the future of the women’s game - the next twenty years is going to be remarkable.

thetimes.co.uk/article/the-in…

David Letterman x Alex Honnold. I like the M&Ms in the chalkbag idea.youtu.be/DYjD112Hb9I?si…

On yer head.

I interviewed Toby 'The Terminator' Roberts and dad Tristian for The Guardian ahead of his Olympic debut in Paris. “It’s a balance between ‘I’m at the Olympics!’ and ‘I’m just here to climb’” + 'enlightening' figs and his 'pretty disappointing' first pint. theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

Meet Toby ‘The Terminator’ Roberts: the teenager set for Olympic heights theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…