Claire and I have run an independent climbing bookstore on www.davemacleod.com/shop for 20 years now, as our main job. This week is Independent Bookstore Week, and so to thank you for supporting us all this time, we have a site-wide 10% discount on everything we sell - My own three books, the other titles we sell and our T-shirts. Use code: INDIEBOOK10
The books you guys buy from us is the reason I've been able to share most of my knowledge for free on YouTube for years, and not take sponsorships to sell you stuff you don't need. So thank you all for that!
A short video I made for the Scottish Government about why I switched to an Electric car and why I couldn't go back to petrol/diesel cars. I've had my EV nearly two years and have a longer video in the pipeline about how it's been. If you folks have questions for me about EVs, do ask here and I'll address them. There's also lots of info about EVs in Scotland on netzeronation.scot/ including the funding available to switch over, manage charging at home etc. My car costs about £5 to charge at home and I can drive 2-300 miles on that depending on the season. It is a big cost saving.
Just home from three sold out shows in Bangor, Sheffield and Hathersage. Now on to the last date on my tour - LONDON on Wednesday 25th. There are still some tickets left. The talk is at Imperial College, 7pm. See you all there. www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
Just want to say thank you to everyone who's come along to my lecture tour so far. It's been great seeing you all and fielding interesting questions at the end of my shows. Two of the next four shows are sold out (Bangor and Hathersage), but still a handful of tickets left at Sheffield on Feb 19th and then London on Feb 25th.
Moves done last night on a cool wee roof project. I'm still recovering from the ankle surgery I had at the start of Nov. Glad to be out climbing and back to Font 8A+ so far, although it is early days with a LONG way to go.
Today I'm preparing a video about my process for getting back to climbing hard after a big layoff, like a surgery/injury. I'm on five ankle surgeries now and have definitely learned something new from each one. Anything you folks would like to ask about this process?
Hopefully squeeze in another session on the roof before I head to Newcastle for my lecture on Wednesday. Then heading to Rheged on Thursday and Aberdeen on Friday. See some of you there! www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
FA of Project Fear 8a+ on Cima Ovest in the Dolomites, Sept 2014. I’d had surgery number two on my right ankle six months previously and was feeling weak, vulnerable and unfit. I’d already been struggling for 15 years to believe I could keep getting better at climbing, despite regular evidence to the contrary. But big injury knocks take this feeling to another level.
While in Italy, we’d been following on TV, the campaign in my home country for its independence, with the referendum imminent. The campaign against independence was not-so-unofficially named ‘project fear’. You see the same tactics used by the heidyins on the news today. Fear catches hold quickly, and is easily amplified. It worked. Watching my own country be exposed to it from my distant location helped me to stand back and separate the facts from the amplification factor of fear. I scraped my way up the route in awful conditions, with water filling the pockets on the crux roof, finding myself at the belay and wondering how I got there. I was so focused on all the things that were going wrong, I’d forgotten all the things I had going for me, and all the things I was doing to work around or solve the problems.
The whole episode was a bit of a watershed time in my life. The way things worked out in Scotland made me really determined to live my life with far less fear. I still felt weak and fragile for much of the following year, but the year after that, I was climbing harder than I ever had in my life.
In October there I had surgery No. 3 on the same ankle. I went climbing outside for the first time last week. I felt weak, vulnerable, unfit and fearless. I didn’t feel fearless about landing on my ankle - that’s common sense. Fearlessness is not recklessness. The fearlessness was just acknowledging the long path I’m on, and enjoying today’s little step of experiencing cold crimps and a quiet hillside again.
I’m doing a speaking tour of the UK starting next week (link below if you want to come along) and the second half of my talk is all about the practicalities of how this new approach to climbing had such a dramatic effect and spent the next several years going round finishing projects I’d given up on in my thirties.
I'm speaking in Edinburgh Jan31st, Newcastle Feb 4th, Rheged Feb 5th, Aberdeen Feb 6th, Bangor Feb 18th, Sheffield Feb 19th, Hathersage Feb 20th and London Feb 25th. www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
I’m doing a speaking tour of the UK next month. Do come along to one of my shows in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Lakes, Aberdeen, Bangor, Sheffield, Hathersage and London. Tickets: www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
I’ll reflect on good decisions I made, or stumbled into, that helped me progress from an unremarkable intermediate climber in my teens to doing the hardest trad route in the world, and what I’ve done to stay at a high level in climbing for the past twenty years. I’ll share some great new routing adventures, thrills and spills, hard lessons and unclimbed parts of Scotland I’m aiming for next.
We’ll have time for questions afterwards. Looking forward to seeing you all. A big thanks to Mountain Equipment for supporting the tour!
Dave MacLeod
Claire and I have run an independent climbing bookstore on www.davemacleod.com/shop for 20 years now, as our main job. This week is Independent Bookstore Week, and so to thank you for supporting us all this time, we have a site-wide 10% discount on everything we sell - My own three books, the other titles we sell and our T-shirts. Use code: INDIEBOOK10
The books you guys buy from us is the reason I've been able to share most of my knowledge for free on YouTube for years, and not take sponsorships to sell you stuff you don't need. So thank you all for that!
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A short video I made for the Scottish Government about why I switched to an Electric car and why I couldn't go back to petrol/diesel cars. I've had my EV nearly two years and have a longer video in the pipeline about how it's been. If you folks have questions for me about EVs, do ask here and I'll address them. There's also lots of info about EVs in Scotland on netzeronation.scot/ including the funding available to switch over, manage charging at home etc. My car costs about £5 to charge at home and I can drive 2-300 miles on that depending on the season. It is a big cost saving.
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Just home from three sold out shows in Bangor, Sheffield and Hathersage. Now on to the last date on my tour - LONDON on Wednesday 25th. There are still some tickets left. The talk is at Imperial College, 7pm. See you all there.
www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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Just want to say thank you to everyone who's come along to my lecture tour so far. It's been great seeing you all and fielding interesting questions at the end of my shows. Two of the next four shows are sold out (Bangor and Hathersage), but still a handful of tickets left at Sheffield on Feb 19th and then London on Feb 25th.
www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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Speaking in Aberdeen TONIGHT! Do come along. www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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Speaking in Newcastle tomorrow! Lakes on Thursday, Aberdeen Friday. See yees aw there!
www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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Moves done last night on a cool wee roof project. I'm still recovering from the ankle surgery I had at the start of Nov. Glad to be out climbing and back to Font 8A+ so far, although it is early days with a LONG way to go.
Today I'm preparing a video about my process for getting back to climbing hard after a big layoff, like a surgery/injury. I'm on five ankle surgeries now and have definitely learned something new from each one. Anything you folks would like to ask about this process?
Hopefully squeeze in another session on the roof before I head to Newcastle for my lecture on Wednesday. Then heading to Rheged on Thursday and Aberdeen on Friday. See some of you there! www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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Leaving in the morning to start my speaking tour around the UK, starting in Edinburgh! A few tickets left (Sat 31st, 7pm).
After that, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Rheged, Bangor, Sheffield, Hathersage, London.
www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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FA of Project Fear 8a+ on Cima Ovest in the Dolomites, Sept 2014. I’d had surgery number two on my right ankle six months previously and was feeling weak, vulnerable and unfit. I’d already been struggling for 15 years to believe I could keep getting better at climbing, despite regular evidence to the contrary. But big injury knocks take this feeling to another level.
While in Italy, we’d been following on TV, the campaign in my home country for its independence, with the referendum imminent. The campaign against independence was not-so-unofficially named ‘project fear’. You see the same tactics used by the heidyins on the news today. Fear catches hold quickly, and is easily amplified. It worked. Watching my own country be exposed to it from my distant location helped me to stand back and separate the facts from the amplification factor of fear. I scraped my way up the route in awful conditions, with water filling the pockets on the crux roof, finding myself at the belay and wondering how I got there. I was so focused on all the things that were going wrong, I’d forgotten all the things I had going for me, and all the things I was doing to work around or solve the problems.
The whole episode was a bit of a watershed time in my life. The way things worked out in Scotland made me really determined to live my life with far less fear. I still felt weak and fragile for much of the following year, but the year after that, I was climbing harder than I ever had in my life.
In October there I had surgery No. 3 on the same ankle. I went climbing outside for the first time last week. I felt weak, vulnerable, unfit and fearless. I didn’t feel fearless about landing on my ankle - that’s common sense. Fearlessness is not recklessness. The fearlessness was just acknowledging the long path I’m on, and enjoying today’s little step of experiencing cold crimps and a quiet hillside again.
I’m doing a speaking tour of the UK starting next week (link below if you want to come along) and the second half of my talk is all about the practicalities of how this new approach to climbing had such a dramatic effect and spent the next several years going round finishing projects I’d given up on in my thirties.
I'm speaking in Edinburgh Jan31st, Newcastle Feb 4th, Rheged Feb 5th, Aberdeen Feb 6th, Bangor Feb 18th, Sheffield Feb 19th, Hathersage Feb 20th and London Feb 25th. www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
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I’m doing a speaking tour of the UK next month. Do come along to one of my shows in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Lakes, Aberdeen, Bangor, Sheffield, Hathersage and London.
Tickets: www.davemacleod.com/shop/lecturetour
I’ll reflect on good decisions I made, or stumbled into, that helped me progress from an unremarkable intermediate climber in my teens to doing the hardest trad route in the world, and what I’ve done to stay at a high level in climbing for the past twenty years. I’ll share some great new routing adventures, thrills and spills, hard lessons and unclimbed parts of Scotland I’m aiming for next.
We’ll have time for questions afterwards. Looking forward to seeing you all. A big thanks to Mountain Equipment for supporting the tour!
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