A brief guide to Deep Water Soloing in the Maltese islands
Tag: Gozo
CLIMBING Photography Competition 2022
The MCC is pleased to announce its first ever Climbign Photography competition. Read on to find out more
Not all classics are hard: The Outer Zone
Alex Teoli Dimech gives us his thoughts on climbing in Gozo’s Wied il-Mielaħ
Maltese Sea Cliffs – home to birds too, not just climbers!
The MCC reached out to ornithologist and climber Marie Claire Gatt to learn more about the curious birds that call our sea cliffs home.
Fruitcakes and turtles
Forna Point in Gozo evokes images of bright yellow rock, smooth, carved by the wind into frozen waves of soft limestone. Beneath, grey shadowy walls plunge to the heaving deep blue sea. On a windy day the waves crash against the base, white-capped, sweeping in relentlessly, smashing in outrage at the base of the cliff,…
Bolt maintenance work at Mgarr Ix-Xini
Some essential maintenance work was done at Mgarr ix-Xini valley on Sunday focusing on the sectors around Dream Walls which needed attention in particular, based on feedback from various climbers trying the routes. The first job however was to clear the litter which had been deposited underneath the carob tree in the centre of the valley…