Congrats to V-Publishing for winning best guidebook in the 2012 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival – awesome result! I got an ‘out of office’ back from John Coefield, Vertebrate Publishing’s Publications Manager, a couple of days back and now I know where he is - living it up in Banff with a gong under his arm!   more »

Cue drum roll… Folks, please give it up for Craig Bailey, the winner of this year’s UKClimbing ‘Be in my Calendar’ Competition…   more »

I’ve been in calendar mode for a good month now and a couple of weekends back I dragged Steve Mac and Mark Busby up to the Lakes for some pixs. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Lakes and Steve has too it seems. We had two days and figured two venues in different valleys would be cool. The weather wasn’t awesome as we went past Kendal so we figured that a low lying, easy access crag would be a good choice. I suggested Raven Crag, Langdale and Steve agreed; the question was would Steve fancy the ripe plums on offer?...   more »

A good friend of mine maintains that “guidebooks are a great shop-window for photographers” and as it happens, I agree. I’m dead chuffed therefore that a couple of the latest guides to the Peak, Ground Up’s Recent Developments on Peak Limestone and the BMC Froggatt, both have shots of mine in...   more »

An envelope from the land of the rising sun sure stands out amongst the junk mail!! Ripping said envelope open, I pulled out the latest copy of Rock and Snow - all shinny and bright it was too...   more »

“Je suis un Rock Star” - so proclaimed Big Ron to an admiring (female) onlooker at the end of a shoot for a climbing filming in the Verdon in the early Eighties – or at least so the story goes!   more »

Do the years just seem to roll by to you? Yeah, same for me – especially since I’ve been in the calendar business; man they seem to zip bye! Anyway back at the point, I heard today that Climbing:2010, my sixth rock climbing calendar, is now rolling off the printing press at Printworks in Sheffield. Next up is collating, trimming, binding, shrink-wrapping and then... bingo – it’s time to start shipping! ETA is, at the moment, a (known) unknown – but it’s pretty darned soon so watch this space…   more »

The 2009 edition of Tribe, the Go Ape! in-house magazine, features a 6-page spread of top wads from a variety of adventure sports including an image from my collection of Steve McClure on his Malham mega route, Overshadow.   more »

Rockfax’s latest edition of their award-winning guide, Western Grit, has hit the shelves with a double page spread of Upper Tor Wall (HS) from my Kinder collection used as the opening shot...   more »

I’m blown away to be one of the four photographers featured in the cover story, Vertical Take, in the latest edition (29th April 2009) of the British Journal of Photography (BJP). Vertical Take, is a behind-the-scenes look at ‘climbing with the mountaineering photographers’…   more »

A Grand Day Out, a magazine supplement with a twist, was published with Climb Magazine and was stuffed with images from yours truly.   more »

I’ve spend pretty much all the 2008/09winter out night-time bouldering both for pleasure (yes I know that sounds perverse!) and to pull together Night Raiders, an illustrated piece published in Climber Apl|09.   more »

Printworks in Sheffield, are well on with the business of printing, collating, folding, binding and shrink-wrapping half a tonne or so of calendars and year planners/posters. The latest eta for climbing:09 and the 2009 Year Planner/Poster is that it will be back and ready to roll out...   more »

Portland a new definitive guide to the climbing at Portland and Lulworth has just been published by the Climbers’ Club. ...   more »

KSP is delighted to have supplied images to Tick Tock Publications for their latest title in the rather nice ‘learn ...   more »

peak district : climbing, a new selected guide to the best easy-grade climbing in the Peak District, has just been published by Vertebrate Publishing. KSP was pleased to supply the majority of the crag images for the guide as well as number of action and incidental shots...   more »

I jumped onto the sport climbing band-wagon shortly after it started rolling in the mid 80’s and, save for winter/spring bouldering forays and the odd ‘away-day’ on the grit or in the mountains, I’ve been sport climbing ever since. Burning considerable midnight oil in the process, I eventually managed to shoe-horn as many tips and techniques that I’ve not forgotten into...   more »

Two brand-spanking new DVD’s hit the shelves just in time for Xmas; Psyche from Posing Productions (a.ka. Alastair Lee) and Hard XS from Slackjaw (a.k.a. Richard Heap and Ben Pritchard). I was delighted to collaborate with both film makers last year such that viewers of said films can see bits of yours truly featured in both productions…   more »