Registration for the new Bouldering Wall Instructor qualification is now open and Beyond the Edge are proud to be one of the providers delivering the qualification. The Bouldering Wall Instructor (BWI) is a nationally recognised qualification created by Mountain Training. It is aimed at those who work or volunteer at indoor/artificial bouldering venues. Why Bouldering Wall…
Yes, another ‘warming up for climbing’ article. No, we’re not going to give you a prescriptive list of all the things you must absolutely do to warm up for the best climbing session ever, but hopefully you will finish reading this with a few ideas on what a climbing warm up might look like for…
Sure, smartphones and GPS have altered the way we navigate the hill and mountains, but we reckon a physical map, a compass and your brain are still the most useful navigation tools there are. Hati discusses why… As my family will happily tell you, my hillwalking career didn’t get off to the best start… Early…
Back in the summer Alex ran a course on techniques and rigging for climbing photography, and participants were kind enough to share their photos with us to pop in a blog. The course teaches skills and techniques to safely get into the best position for taking climbing photos, as well as the photographic technicalities of…
Alex and I have been trying out a new newsletter with the vague title ‘cool stuff we’ve found around the internet’. We thought we’d share some highlights from the last few editions as a blog, but if you would like it delivered directly to your inbox you can sign up here. (Disclaimer – we’ll send…
Many of us enjoy getting outdoors and leaving our screens behind, so it seems a bit strange to be writing a blog post about phone apps and how useful our phones are out in the hills. However, whilst I’m all for a break from instagram doom-scrolling, phones do have other handy functions that help us…
This is another walking route you can do by train or bus. Take the Hope Valley line to Hathersage then walk back to Grindleford over the tops. This route finishes at our base at the Sir William Hotel (feel free to pop in for a pint), but a a shorter variation takes you to Grindleford…
Inspired by the likes of Al Humphrey and Brendan Leonard, we’ve been trialling a new mid-monthly newsletter to share interesting bits and bobs from around the web. Sometimes we’ll mention our courses in this newsletter, but mostly it’s about what other folk, organisations and our team are up to outside of Beyond the Edge. This…
Big congratulations to Sophie who passed her Lowland Leader Assessment last week. Sophie is a poet, writer and creative writing facilitator. Sophie leads guided poetry workshops in the Peak District, where she creates a space for connecting with nature within without and turning your walks into words. During her assessment, Sophie performed a phenomenally powerful…
Is there really space for another Peak District guidebook? A few friends asked this as we passed around a brand-new copy of Graham Hoey’s Peak District Gritstone (published by Vertebrate Publishing last April). The answer, we decided, depends on the guidebook… As it turns out, there’s definitely room for this one. Original route descriptions…
There’s nothing like a surprise blessing of a pregnancy to stop you in your tracks and make you look at the world around you. This was particularly strange during 2020 going into 2021! From changing seasons to changing hormones, the unfolding of my pregnancy alongside one of the oddest years ever has been a constant…
When you pick up a walking route card or guidebook, you expect to read line after line of dry directions. Turn left at the stile then descend down to a bridge. Cross the bridge and turn right… But when I picked up the Sheffield Round Walk Guidebook, I accidentally read the whole thing from cover…