AMo
The Tale that Wags the Log
It's been a while. After a phase of publishing some climbing related writing around the time of the first lockdown, I haven't been...
top of page
Search
AMo
Jul 6, 20216 min
A Woman in Assynt
Or, Make Achmelvich Great Again I'll say this for the North Coast 500 - it's egalitarian. The beach car park at Achmelvich is a melting...
AMo
Jan 4, 20218 min
Not Climbing 8a
Wry musings of a middle grade sport climber There is no good reason that 7a, or 8a, or 9a, should be bigger deals than any other climbing...
AMo
Dec 31, 20207 min
Climbing in Tenerife
A winter sun rock review I'll admit that Tenerife was not a place I'd ever had an interest in visiting. The main impression I had of it,...
AMo
May 6, 20208 min
What the gabbro gave
Where others have strong fingers and nerves, we have tactics. Ferdia was the racing driver. I was the pitstop mechanic.
AMo
Jan 13, 20203 min
Culm Undone
The wind is at me as I tiptoe in the eggshells and madness, sure to blow the sounds of me over Tintagel’s bare crown and to kingdom gone...
AMo
Jul 21, 20197 min
Above the overlap
I always thought of herons as silent and solitary birds. Last night on the Åbyfjord in Bohuslän, I scrambled to a promontory above the...
AMo
Mar 8, 20195 min
24
I guess it always happens fast, otherwise it wouldn't happen. I haven't crashed a car before, not properly, at speed. It reminded me a...
AMo
Jan 22, 20198 min
Break Midwinter
Imagine the perfect weapon, that could obliterate a target completely, with no collateral damage. No explosions, no messy coughing up of...
AMo
Nov 9, 201816 min
Zeit
Summer drains the last of its energy, browning the bracken and plumping blackberries. There will be no grandstand peroration for the...
AMo
Nov 9, 20189 min
In Fairness
"In the morning the effects of the Grey Man's curse were sufficiently plain; rocks had been detached that no earthly power could move,...
AMo
Nov 9, 201810 min
Winters Past
December 2011, a few nights before the solstice: I am all but asleep at the wheel on the M80 between Stirling and Glasgow. It’s 3 a.m.,...
AMo
Nov 9, 201813 min
Fight the Moonlight
The raven bounces on the air overhead, folds its wings as it rides a weightless arc, inverts and drops like a dart, spirals upright and...
AMo
Nov 9, 201811 min
La République
You were in the Alps. Was it good? Yeah, it was good, but… For no obvious reason, I spent the first few days in Chamonix swaying between...
AMo
Nov 9, 20189 min
Matter Under Mind
Fingers piano play the flatness at the back of a rounded break, toes smudge on subtle scoops and dimples, limbs twist and press with ...
AMo
Nov 9, 201811 min
Freefalls
Squrrrrrk ...is it on? OK. It's been a while, last year in fact, since I wrote on this blog. I posted a couple of stories from our two...
AMo
Nov 9, 201811 min
American Tales: The Rostrum
We're sitting in the parking lot of Annett's Mono Village the morning after the Incredible Hulk. Walking out took a lot less time,...
AMo
Nov 9, 20188 min
American Tales: The Incredible Hulk
: ...the Third Pillar of Daaaana....the Needles...buy a Golden Eagle pass...Andrew, you have got to climb OZ. For the true effect of this...
AMo
Nov 9, 20184 min
The Zone
Violence sweeps through the Zone, wave after wave, leaving rainbows. These are not the only conspiracy of the rain and light to capture...
AMo
Nov 9, 20183 min
Dream Liberator
Here’s a feeling I’d forgotten, a summer sensation with a twist of the mystic, not a thing at all maybe – but it brings a strange...
bottom of page