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Keswick Mountaineering Club are an active mountaineering and rock climbing club in the north of the Lake District. Between April and September the Keswick Mountaineering Club meet every Tuesday afternoon and evening for rock climbing on the local crags in the Lake District.The videos on the right give a flavour of some of the classic routes in the Lakes.We also hold many weekend meets, both in the Lake District and in other places such as Scotland, Northumberland, the Peak District, Wales and Cornwall/Devon.Members will want to be out climbing whenever the sun is shining. It is easy to find another member able to climb with you by using our “Partner wanted” Forum or our Facebook Group. During the summer months we often run a meet in the Alps, the Dolomites, and/or Scotland (e.g. Ben Nevis or the Cuillin Ridge on Skye).These locations provide larger mountains than we have in the Lake District, and hence larger mountaineering challenges. There is often a mix of mountaineering, rock climbing on the lower crags, and via ferratas (where you protect a climb by clipping to a permanent steel cable).In Scotland (where the weather is less dependable) we often use the poor weather days for some scrambling. In the winter our regular Tuesday evening meets move to the indoor Kong Adventure wall at Keswick.Between late October and mid April, we usually run a meet for a week or two somewhere sunny (e.g. Kalymnos, Costa Blanca, Cyprus, or Sicily), so that members can get outside to climb in the dry. We sometimes run weekend/week meets in Scotland or Norway for ice climbing.Members get together via our “Partners wanted” Forum or our Facebook Group to go winter climbing whenever the weather allows. We run a series of scrambling meets throughout the winter.We love to get out in the snow with our axes and crampons, but, when there is no snow, we get out on the rock – even when it is damp.Videos on the right show some typical scrambles. Check out the Napes Needle video for a feel of scrambling in the damp. We run a series of winter lectures/film shows at the Kirkgate Centre in Cockermouth.