The Malta Climbing Club yesterday tried out the wall on the ROCS Extreme stand at the popular AMITEX travel trade fair which is currently on at the MFCC. The wall was built by Gregory Attard who is promoting a range of extreme holiday climbing packages – a new venture for him, wall construction was…
Routes on the Azure window lost to the waves
Its long been known that the Azure Window in Gozo has been steadily losing rock over the years as the wind and the waves ceaselessly pound it particularly during the winter months. In fact, when scuba-diving around the window you can’t help noticing the huge boulders lying on the seabed which obviously became detached from…
News from Gozo – Caldwell and Trotter find a line
The latest from Gozo, courtesy of a phone call this morning with Xavier Hancock of the GCA is that Tommy Caldwell and Sonnie Trotter have now identified a line to “besiege” on Gozo’s southern cliffs, just as they’d hoped to do. They’re based at an apartment in Xlendi, which is ideal in terms of that fishing…
Sonnie Trotter and Tommy Caldwell in Malta
I was walking along the cliffs in Gozo with Stevie Haston and Mark McGowan on the 30th March checking out possible new routes, as one does, when I received an email on my Blackberry saying that a message had come in on the MCC website. It was from Sonnie Trotter commenting on an article I…
Mount Toubkal – Josef Grech reports..
Expedition Leader Josef N. Grech is back in Malta following the Maltese team’s success on Mt. Toubkal in North Africa. Here’s a brief report: The Maltese team of climbers have returned home after successfully summitting the highest peak in the High Atlas, Mount Toubkal in Morocco. Towering at 4,167m (13,670 ft) Jbel Toubkal, as it…
Mt. Toubkal expedition successful
Expedition Leader Josef N. Grech reports that the Mount Toubkal Winter Expedition was successful, with the summit being reached on 17.03.12 at 3.25pm. “Climbers back at Base Camp, tired but happy after difficult climb.” An expedition report will follow soon, once the team have returned to Malta with hopefully lots of pics and…