Archive - Kirkpatrick's Climbing Notes

Sorry for the lack of articles of late, I’ve been juggling parenting and working on latest book (1001 Mountain Tips).

Jun 20 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

May 2025

Emotional Binding

Suffer the children (for their own good)

May 30 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

‘Big E (go)’ (Reissue)

When you’ve been a jobing (and non-jobing) writer for 30 years, you often come across things you wrote long ago that you’ve forgotten. Sometimes you’re…

May 28 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

Words are like shells on a beach: they’re countless, some new, but mostly old, chipped, broken, shattered, transforming into ever smaller grains of…

May 19 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

Illusions of grandeur in high tech material solutions.

May 6 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

April 2025

Bring back the digits

In praise of mountain mittens

Apr 29

March 2025

February 2025

I was once involved in working on a promo for a film that never came to anything.

Feb 27 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

Podcast: The big wind and winter walls

A podcast on the road in Spain.

Feb 22 •

Andy Kirkpatrick

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