MAM - UBMC - University of Birmingham Mountaineering and Climbing Club

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Scotland 2023 Trip Report

Saturday Night As per tradition, we hit up Dilshad’s, Selly Oak’s finest, the night before the trip! With the people carriers (vans) loaded up with club gear and parked worryingly in Selly, we all tucked into superb curries while drinking a pint or two. Many stories of the

The Anatomy of a Himalayan Climbing Expedition

The Rick Allen Memorial Lecture, with the Midland Association of Mountaineers Surgeon Rear Admiral (Retd) Andrew S Hughes QHP MRCGP MBChB 7:30 pm Wednesday 22nd February Teaching and Learning Lecture Theatre 2, University of Birmingham and on Zoom Andy graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1983 and following

Low House 2 Trip Report

Low House 2 Trip Report

The weekend began with an efficient departure from North gate. The stoats arrived at Low House with a couple of hours to sit around the fire before getting an early night to rest before a big day of climbing on Saturday. However, not everyone got good nights rest, with stories

Remembering Rick Allen

Remembering Rick Allen

Rick Allen (Arthur to his many friends in the Stoats young and old) didn’t win his Piolet d’Or for this 1977 ascent of the clock tower in the centre of the University of Birmingham but it did mark him out as a rising star in the UBMC - University

A Letter from the MAM

A Letter from the MAM

Dear Stoat, I hope you are enjoying your time at Birmingham in UBMC. If you are soon to be graduating and wondering how best to continue crushing, keep up with fellow stoats and meet other psyched mountaineers then look no further than the Midland Association of Mountaineers! You may have