New Online Catalogues - Germany and Japan

Our latest online catalogues for Germany and Japan are now available for download.

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Der neue ME-Katalog 2011/2012 für den deutschsprachigen Raum ist Anfang April erschienen. 

Schaut Euch auf www.invia.de/katalog das e-book an! Dort kann dann auch der Originalkatalog bestellt werden...

View German Catalogue here

The French Connection - Stanage Round Up

Friend of the brand, aspirant guide and professional photographer Thomas Vialletet gives us a round up from his, ME Pro partner Slyvain Millet, Yannick and Thibault's recent trip the Peak District.

"We were curious to go to the Peak Districk in order to make our own opinions of climbing Gritstone. We had heard lot of rumors : too hard, too exposed to climb, bad weather, etc....
So we took the car set off on a 1500kms roadtrip to climb "the most dangerous climbing in the world"!

Base camp was North Lees camp site. First impression, good rock, easy to put safety protection, not so dangerous, very beautiful faces, overcrowded and warm! We quickly got our rhythm, every day visiting a new area - Stanage, Burbage South, Higgar Tor, Black Crows and Millstone, climbing easy routes for warm ups and going into harder lines for the trill!

Sylvain climbed lines such as "Camel Hot" E6 6b, "Pulsar direct" E6 6b, "Block and Tackle" E6 6c, "London Wall" E5 6a, "Edge Lane" E5 5c, and "Flight of ideas" E6 7a. many of these he attempt on-sight, sometimes with success sometimes after a few goes 

Thibault realized lines such as "Pulsar Direct"or "Camel Hot",

Yannick did "London Wall", "Bat out of Hell" E5 6a or "Goosey Goosey Gauder" E5 6a.

and I did some route such as "Pebble Mill" E5 6a, "Nosferatus", E6 6B and "London Wall".

We also climbed many other easy routes during the ten days of the trip, the list of all would take too long to write!

In Conclusion - we really like the climbing in the Peak on the Grit, we had a beautiful weather (without rain !), and we love the English spirit : no bolt, no top rope, only cams and nuts ! that's very fun.... the trad climbing!

For sure we will be back! but in a colder conditions in order to try the harder routes that we couldn't climb because the weather was too warm!"

You can check out more photography over at Thomas's site here 

Kyashar 2011 Expedition update - part 3

Just had a text in from the guys...

"Been sat in base camp with lots of snow every afternoon for the last 5 days. We managed to get some bouldering in during the mornings before it arrives. Bottom butress which we want to climb in rock boots - not axes and crampons is now plastered so we need a few days of sun to clear that first and lots of snow on the face. Gear stashed at start of climb so all set for when we get the weather! Fingers crossed its arrives soon" - Andy and Nick

Dave MacLeod - Seven of Nine V14

Congratulations to Dave for completing his Sky Pilot project - Seven of Nine V14

Dave on Seven of Nine V14

You can check out Dave's full report and a video over at his blog here

Sylvain and Thomas - visit ME HQ

ME Pro partner Sylvain Millet and friend of the brand, aspirant guide and photographer Thomas Vialletet swung by ME HQ earlier today while on their "rest day" for a spot of gear chat before a catch up over some classic British pub fayre at our local.

   Sylvain and Thomas

The guys have been in the Peak district for the past week climbing classics around Stanage, Burbage south and Black Rocks (see Ruth's post below) before heading back to Gap, France this Friday.

ME Showroom L- R Thomas, Me, Head of ME Design Sam, and Sylvian talk through kit

Sylvain looking through some of the latest SS11 range

We'll have more pictures from the guys in the next week so check back here

Sylvain in the Peak - Part 1

Blog post by Ruth Taylor 

Sylvain checking out the moves on The Crypt Trip

As Dunk mentioned a few days ago, Sylvain Millet has arrived in the Peak District with his friends Thibaud and Yannick (I apologise now for spelling them both wrong!). So Andy and I headed up to the High Neb area of Stanage Wednesday to see how they have been getting on. We had never met Sylvain before and so we headed to the crag wondering if we'd find them. We spotted a team right next to High Neb Buttress but weren't convinced it was team France - they looked to be lacking the standard french uber-climber tan....... we were right definitely some brits, but cowering in the shade behind a boulder were the boys - it's HOT, HOT, HOT out there and that is not great for climbing on the gritstone. Friction is definitely not at it's best!

Thibaud facing the tricky top-out on Quietus

Undeterred the boys were cranking away and we were just in time to see them cruising up Quietus. We hung out for a couple of hours, Andy mostly lay in the sun attempting to get some kind of a tan - whilst I scurried about getting a few photos and soloing some super easy routes.

Andy Turner, Sylvain Millet , Yannick, Mac the dog and Thibaud under the jumper

Sylvain making very short work of Quietus

We left them still climbing as the temperature began to drop, with an extra guide book and some advice about which crags will be shady for the next couple of days. Andy has arranged to meet up again over the weekend and is hoping to tempt them further south to some of the shady crags on the Western Grit, so watch out for the next update.

Bergzeit Expeditionstag - 28.Mai 2011

Tipps & Tricks von echten Profis: Mountain Equipment unterstützt Bergzeit Alpin beim 1.Expeditionstag

Eurasburg, im April 2011 - Aconcagua, Mt. McKinley oder gar ein 8000er im Himalaya, Expeditionen unterschiedlichster Art erfreuen sich wachsender Beliebtheit. Erfolg und unvergessliche Touren hängen dabei vom richtigen Equipment, einer fachkundigen Beratung und einer guten Vorbereitung ab. Auf Grund dessen unterstützt Mountain Equipment, seit über einem halben Jahrhundert Experte für alpine Ausrüstung, erstmalig die Expeditionstage von Bergzeit Alpin mit seinem hervorragendem Fachwissen. Bergzeit, Fachhändler aus Holzkirchen bei München, ist Spezialist für Bergsport und Expeditionen und bietet am Samstag, den 28. Mai 2011 von 9 bis 18 Uhr einen Expeditions-und Informationstag in seiner Filiale an. Mountain Equipment steht dem Team von Bergzeit Alpin dafür beratend zur Seite.

Neben spannenden Angeboten und Aktivitäten liegt der Schwerpunkt an diesem Tag auf der Wissensvermittlung und Beratung. Wer könnte dafür besser geeignet sein, als Menschen, die Expeditionen bereits hautnah erlebt haben? Deshalb stehen an diesem Tag neben erfahrenen Mountain Equipment Mitarbeitern und Bergzeit-Personal, Expeditionsveranstaltern und Spezialisten zum Thema Akklimatisation auch Profis und staatlich geprüfte Bergführer Frage und Antwort.

Rund um zahlreiche Aktionen berät Mountain Equipment kompetent zum Thema Daune in Schlafsäcken und Bekleidung. Mountain Equipment-Highlight des Tages: Wer die Portaledge (Hängematten-Biwak) in mehreren Metern Höhe erfolgreich über Fixseile „erklettert“, wird dafür von den Alpin-Spezialisten mit einem Ultralight Biwaksack belohnt.

Fachkundige Expeditionsberatung kommt an diesem Tag von Hauser Exkursionen, die mit über 30 Jahren Erfahrung in diesem Bereich beratend zur Seite stehen.

Das Thema Akklimatisation wird vom Institut Höhenbalance näher erläutert. In einem Höhen-Simulator für Jedermann sind 6000 Meter ein Kinderspiel.

Zu guter letzt, denn so viel Action macht hungrig: Trek’N Eat lädt zum Dinner mit Fertiggerichten, die auf keiner Expedition fehlen sollten.