With around 6 weeks left until we head out to the alps, we suddenly realised that all of our bouldering power gained over the winter, will not do us a great deal of good when we are at well over 4000 metres attempting to make a traverse ascent of the Matterhorn! 

We also hope to head to the Salbischijen (in the Swiss Alps) and summit the mountain via the South Ridge and then potentially make an ascent of the West ridge.  The West Ridge of the Salbitschijen is over 1000 metres in length and features sustained technical climbing for around 36 pitches, finishing on a spectacular summit needle!

If we are to stand any chance of success, we seriously need to shape up and massively increase our stamina and general fitness as well as getting super slick and fast with our ropework and getting back on to Limestone and mountain rock..

We decided to start gently with a days sport climbing at Llandullas Cave on the A55 near LLandudno on the North Wales coast.  Our aim was to get a whole bunch of routes done, nothing too hard, just getting used to climbing routes again and onsighting.  It was a glorious day and we got some fantastic routes done however this is just the beginning, we both realised quite how unfit we have become, let the training commence.............................

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