En route to Cerro Bolson 5550m, P3250m, Argentina - photo Ken Jones

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The BwB Journal 2025

This is the Sixth edition of the BwB Journal. My thanks go to all who have contributed articles, to Rob Woodall for proof-reading the content, and Mark Trengove for web-editing this year's Journal.

In this edition six articles appear.  No particular overall theme emerges, and they make for some wide-ranging reading, including worldwide trip accounts.

First and foremost, I want to thank Mark Trengove for his sterling work over the last five editions of the Journal. Without his vision, patience and forward thinking BwB, this website and the Journal would not exist today.

Secondly, also a special thanks to all who have volunteered to fill various roles following Mark’s retirement from BwB. Your role and those who will volunteer in the future will be critical to keep this wonderful resource going now and into the future.

Between now and the 2026 edition of the Journal - to be published next autumn - if any of you have an interesting story to recount, please submit it for next year. Even stories of “failure” are wanted, as they are sometimes the most interesting - we all have had one or two non-summit attempts due to weather, illness, bad planning, forgotten essential kit or ... ?

I wish you all very happy (and most importantly safe) climbing/peak-bagging for the coming year 2026.

Fergal Hingerty

BwB Journal Editor

December 2025

Articles in this issue

Click on the title below to go to the article, or use the side tool-bar:

• David Jamieson recounts his climbing trip to the peaks of Mount Taranaki, Mount Ruapehu and Mount Tarawera on North Island, New Zealand.

• Isolation in the north-west of Ireland - Fergal Hingerty recounts his trip to The Emerald Isle's remotest mountain - Slieve Carr in the Nephin wilderness area.

• Piotr Mielus recounts three decades of listing and exploring the Tatra mountains

• Matthias Fieles describes a snowy stormy ascent of Newtontoppen, Svalbard

• David Jamieson returns to hospitable Morocco for its lesser-known Ultras

• Fergal Hingerty tackles the sharp spire of Tozal del Mallo in the Ordesa & Monte Perdido National Park, Pyrenees, Spain