New committee member responsible for Youth and Competitions

ClimbMT/MCC is pleased to announce that Louise Giglio was recently co-opted as a member of the club committee. Louise; whose son Luca is a member of our youth programme KidsZone; has been actively supportive of the club and KidsZone in particular and we are delighted that she has come forward to offer her own time to help…

Spooky Cave/ Garden of Eden Club meet 18/02/2023

A great, atmospheric club meet was held in lovely weather high above the sea at Garden of Eden / Spooky Cave crag. Attendance was good and climbers were soon flowing up the easier routes while a few tried the popular “Manic Cure” F7a on the left side of Spooky Cave. Great to see some of…

Nominations to UIAA commissions

The UIAA is currently calling for nominations and/or re-nominations to the UIAA Commissions, with deadline on the 2nd April 2021. The UIAA is seeking to appoint experts from it’s member federations for the following commissions: Anti- Doping Commission: The UIAA promotes Clean Climbing by adopting and implementing the World Anti-Doping Code. The federation manages an Anti-Doping…

Thank you Christopher Sella & Inigo Taylor!

The committee of the MCC regrets to advise club members that Chris Sella (Club Secretary) and Inigo Taylor (PRO), who I am sure are well known to many of you, have tendered their resignation from the committee of the MCC. Chris has decided to pursue other goals within the local climbing sphere, and the committee…

Incident at Mgarr iX-Xini 30/08/2020

No doubt, most members of the climbing community were horrified to read or hear that on Sunday, two climbers were seriously injured in a climbing-related accident. I have to admit when reading the first report about the incident in the Times of Malta that my reaction was to think that it was yet again, a…