Welcome to the official site of the
Malta Rock Climbing Club (MRCC)
The MRCC is Malta’s longest established climbing club, its members being some of the islands’ most passionate and committed hard-core climbers. The club regularly organises events and initiatives, and is responsible for some of the islands’ major climbing projects.
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Beginners session and bbq at Wied Babu…
A great turnout of beginners, lots of new faces and everyone tried their best to get up some quite tricky routes and pushed to their limits! Accompanied by music and a bbq to round off a sunny and wonderful day out.
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Climbing and Cleanup Event at Xaqqa Valley
The MRCC just held its second Club Climbing Session in March, this time combining it with a much needed cleanup of Xaqqa Valley. More than 20 club members helped with the cleanup making it a pretty international affair with over 10 different nationalities represented, spanning the globe from Columbia to Pakistan! As many of you…
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Rock Climbing Feature in Air Malta’s Inflight Magazine
The new Air Malta magazine Bizzilla’s first (January 2013) edition features rock climbing in an article written by Andrew Warrington with images by David Simmonite, Claudia Ziegler and Andrew Warrington. Thanks to Blue Media and Sarah Kennard for featuring this article in the first edition of Air Malta’s revamped inflight magazine Bizzilla, and for their…
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Permanent Ban on Climbing in Chapel Cave
It is now definite that no climbing is permitted in Chapel Cave at Wied il-Għasel. After discussions with the caretakers of the Chapel, the Mosta Local Council and the Curia, it is confirmed that all climbing within the area delineated by the metal fence around the cave is banned. Most of the bolts which were…
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Temporary Ban on Climbing at Chapel Cave in Wied il-Għasel
Unfortunately I must call on all climbers to kindly keep away from Chapel Cave in Wied il-Għasel for the time being. The priest who had painstakingly restored the Chapel of St. Paul the Hermit in 1993 and who is responsible for the chapel’s maintenance, upkeep and services has called me up asking us to discontinue…
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More access work, this time at Fomm ir-Riħ
I have spent another beautiful sunny day improving installations at two excellent crags in the Fomm ir-Riħ area: Glass Wall and Spezz Wall. As was notified earlier this year, some vandal damaged the abseil point at the top of Spezz Corner E2 5b on Spezz Wall. I have now replaced this with a proper 2-chain…