I’m quite obsessed with climbing and when not working (I work part-time as a pharmacist), spend most of my time doing, thinking or talking about climbing.

I love both trad and sport climbing and try and do a mixture of the two. I’ve on-sighted/ flashed about 100 E5’s on a variety of rock types and situations, from the sea-cliffs of Lundy, Pembroke, Gogarth, the Outer Hebrides and Reiff, to the mountain crags of Wales, Lakes and Glencoe, and not forgetting the beautiful sandstone crags of Northumberland and my favourite, the Yorkshire limestone. Moving on to harder trad and I’ve on-sighted/flashed at least 15 E6’s (Yorkshire, Scotland, Lakes and N.Wales), as well as Death Wish E7 6b at Blue Scar and was pleased to get the 4th ascent of Vlad the Impailer E7 6b at Dove Crag. To the popular question – what’s she ever done on grit? I’m afraid the answer is not much, my hardest routes being Big Greenie and Wall of Horrors at Almscliff. I have still to discover the delights of gritstone (although I’m starting to enjoy bouldering on the Yorkshire grit). On the bolts I’ve flashed several F7c’s and one F7c+ (all abroad) as well as red-pointing some of Yorkshire’s longest routes including Huecool F8b and Supercool F8a+ in Gordale, and The Groove F8a+ at Malham. I made the first ascent of Stolen F8b at Kilnsey in 2006 and more recently repeated Climb of the Century F8b at Malham.

I do enjoy bouldering but aren’t particularly good at it (I tend to potter about instead of bearing down), so the hardest I’ve flashed is Font 7a and the hardest problems I’ve climbed are Cubby’s Lip and The Nadser both of which weigh in at Font 7b+ and can be found at Kyloe In.

I also dabbled in the competition scene for many years, starting way back in 1992, with several good results; including 2nd place overall in many a BICC series (most recently 2006). My best year was probably 2002/3 when I finished 4th overall in the BBC’s and won the Sunderland BICC (the only round I entered that year). I still enjoy entering all the local bouldering comps in the winter months.

Some of my favourite climbing areas include the Outer Hebrides, Yorkshire limestone and Catalunya, Spain.