Climbing The Walls - Wrathchild

Advantages: It's awesome!!
Disadvantages: Getting to decent crags from the South East

...I have been climbing for more than 15 years now. Climbing actually encompasses a fairly broad range of activities, so I thought I?d start by explaining where I fit in. I am not one of these mad fools who think that tramping all day up a mountain in miserable cold wet conditions is fun. I enjoy technical rock climbing, on sea cliffs or inland crags, preferably on a hot sunny day and preferably with a very short walk from the car park :-) You can also climb on indoor, man-made walls, and this is where most people now start. New indoor climbing centres seem to be springing up all over the UK, and you can find the wall nearest you via the British Mountaining Council website, http://www.thebmc.co.uk/indoor/walls/wall.asp. Most offer introductory courses for a small fee. For example, the wall nearest to me (which I am not advertising... Read review

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Advantages: Gets the heart going
Disadvantages: Could also make it stop!!!

...Hi As a youngster in the Scouts, we had many trips to Fort Purbrook man made climbing wall. The wall was only about 15 foot tall with matresses on the floor. There were no ropes so it was easy, just climb up the wall..... Well, it was not quite so easy, the man made wall had very small bits to grip one with your hands or tred on with your feet. Even the easy bit was hard to achieve. I came to the conclusion that my body shape was the wrong shape for rock climbing and never took it any futher. 14 years on I meet a friend in our canoeing club who is well in to rock climbing. A few months back he climbed the stack, 'Old Man of Hoy' on the Orkney coast. He asked if I was interested in trying climbing and I said that I'd played on the man made walls and did not think I was designed body wise for climbing. He turned up on my drive... Read review

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Advantages: Clever animation
Disadvantages: None

...Most of the mums and dads out there will have enjoyed the recent serge of cartoons that make kids feel like adults or the ones that make adults feel like kids, stuffed full of in-jokes for the grown ups like the family are with popcorn (the worlds biggest mark-up on a food snack!) in the cinemas, a great way to get the whole family into those multiplexes as they gulp their bumper Cokes and the money roles in. But with WALL- E we have the first real carton aimed at adults that the kids can watch too, if they are well-behaved, politically aware pixel animation definitely the future. It really is a smart commercial more by Pixel and a really clever little flick to-boot that they have come up with here, comfortably one of the best films of the year, one you can watch over and over again. I don't normally fall for the hype that the likes... Read review

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