Not really a blog post, more a scribble to say how great it is to be back in rainy Sheffield after a week's bouldering in the alpine granite paradise of Val di Mello in northern Italy. Described as the Yosemite of Europe, Mello is ace, with stacks of high quality routes and bouldering. We were there on a mission to check out the latter, and can report it is brilliant.

If you want to find out more about climbing in Mello, check out the following guides from our good friends at Versante Sud, guidebook publishers and italian language publishers of our autobiographies of Jerry Moffatt and Ron Fawcett:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JC.