Captain Tits Out: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

At the end of the day, all I want is to have the freedom, the choice, to take my shirt off when it’s hot, and I’m sweating; and for my body to not be sexualized. Is that too much to ask?

Fontainebleau Part 2: all the pretty ducks

In part one, we got a taster of what it’s like to be a pretty duck in a today’s climbing gym. This time, I want to talk about what it’s like to be a pretty duck among other pretty ducks, outside. Specifically, within the framework of one special event, Women’s Bouldering Festival at Fontainebleau. For […]

Norway: Apotheosis

We used our teeth as machetes to break through thorny thicket of bushes…

Norway: part 1 (but not quite)

I’ll start in the middle. It’s the middle of 2018, and the middle of a sunny, hot day. Too hot for Norway, even in the summer. Global warming my ass (and all the other body parts). We are in the mountains, not in the middle of Norway. More like South-West of Norway. Flying, hauling, wheezing […]

Happening upon a Hut

I expected massive, commercialized signs, cosplaying baristas, and bad puns like Espresso Patronum and Severus Scones. But no.

Britain’s most haunted mountain

“We are not going to ice-climb on this hike, and we are not wusses. Logic: axes are optional and therefore avoidable.”