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Nope. Definitely going and will climb it solo if need be. Once the fixed ropes are in place then I'll just clip on and go and follow who's in front. There's no overhangs or that like, bit of scrambling but that's about it and don't need a permit to climb.

You try doing loops with hills to climb like the Steyning bostel or cycle through poynings and up to devis dyke. I know you probably class speed humps as hills but they really aren't.

Did you have to pay like being guided up or is it like backpackers just hiking up on their own.

No thanks. I just want to climb the well known mountians. I'll take my chances.

I'm going to Boulders in Brighton next Tuesday. I know climbing plastic isn't the same as rock but I need to know what ropes are what and how to use carabiners. Crampons are straight forward.

Long shot but has anyone climbed the matterhorn or know any friends that have. It's a beautiful mountain and always appealed to me and more so because of the history. I've no mountain experience apart from reading countless books about Everest, K-2, the Eiger and the Matterhorn and am going to...