Following our successful charters last summer the MCC has organised another day trip on the beautiful sailing yacht the “Barbarossa” on the 5th August. During the day we shall depart from Marfa and sail around Comino to Lantern point for swimming and deep water soloing and then weather permitting we shall cross over to Gozo…
New climbing wall opening tomorrow
Alan Micallef is a nice guy and a local entrepreneur who’s obviously very much into health and fitness. He’s invested a lot of time and certainly money in setting up a new gym in Paola. Its large and airy and looks well -equipped (I’m not an expert!) and is situated in a former warehouse. Its…
Maltese route King of Kings 8b featured in July "Climb" Magazine
Stevie Haston’s 8b classic on Gozo has just featured in a two page article in the latest (July) issue of the British “Climb” Magazine. In the article he describes “King of Kings” as the best route he’s ever done and certainly the biggest pitch. More great publicity for local climbing which augurs well for the…
King of Kings F8b features in Spanish climbing media
Following Stevie Haston’s well publicised visit to Malta over a period of 10 weeks when he bolted about 40 new routes of all grades at various locations on Gozo, his new 55m roof route “King of Kings” today featured on the website of the top Spanish climbing magazine Desnivel. Read about it here!
The longest roof climb in the world – and its on Gozo
The Underworld. A name that to me evokes thoughts of hobbits, Gandalf, Lycans and weird demons and beasts. Or of the mafia, drugs, beatings in dark alleyways and bankers. Whatever images the name brings to mind, they’re not comforting ones – and neither is the Underworld a comfortable place to be. Not at first anyway….
Deutsche Bank supports MCC
Following contacts with the undersigned, the MCC is pleased to announce that Deutsche Bank (Malta) Limited based in St. Julian’s have kindly made a contribution to the MCC bolting fund to assist the MCC in its efforts to develop rock-climbing in the Maltese Islands. Such a contribution is of course greatly welcomed and it will…