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A series of articles (short and very long) mostly published in magazines such as High, OTE, Climber and Climb.

Note: If you spot any mistakes, areas that need work (such as missing images), then please email me.

Andy Kirkpatrick

The US magazine Climbing once described Andy as a climber with a “strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, with a reputation “for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the Alps and beyond, sometimes with partners and sometimes alone.”

More succinctly, Metro magazine claims that he “makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton”

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El Cap with Phil Packer

In 2009 I helped Major Phil Packer climbed El Cap, helping him to hit his target of one million pounds for Help for Heroes.

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