WOMEN ON THE ROCKS!
‘CLIMBING GIVES ME MENTAL STRENGTH’
Hazel Jones, 65, from Sheffield, explains why women can excel at climbing.
atching dolphins splash about off the Pembrokeshire coast as gannets take to the skies, I never want to be anywhere else. Pembroke is my favourite place to sea-cliff climb and I also love multi-pitch mountain routes such as on Tryfan, Snowdonia. Both are forms of what’s called trad climbing, but you have to multi-pitch up a mountain because the ropes aren’t long enough to climb it all in one go. We climb 30 metres, anchor, then do that again until we reach the top. I
