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Adam Butterworth Adam Butterworth

JCMT 2024 Women’s Q&A

After the success of our 2023 ‘Ladies’ Night’, we will once again be running an online session for potential female applicants in 2024. Women thinking of applying to our Summer Alpine Courses are invited to join us on Zoom to hear an overview of the courses and to ask any questions they may have about the application process or the courses themselves.

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Adam Butterworth Adam Butterworth

JCMT Ladies’ Night

There are now more women using climbing walls and getting outside at crags than ever before and, while some of our courses have equal numbers of male and female participants, our summer alpine courses see noticeably fewer applications from women.

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Adam Butterworth Adam Butterworth

JCMT Returns to the Mountains in 2022

In 2022, JCMT courses returned to some form of normality after a tumutuous couple of years. 130 stuents attended our mountain safety course in North Wales and the Alps, and we began a new partnership with peak Mountain Training.

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Jonathan Taee Jonathan Taee

Jonathan’s Final Resting Place

Jonathan’s body was never recovered when he died 34 years ago 1979. In August 2013, mountain rescue helicopter pilot, Gerold Biner flying past the …..

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Jonathan Taee Jonathan Taee

Mountain School

The thought of climbing in the Alps can be daunting. It’s a big step up, even if you’ve survived a winter season in Scotland…..

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