Camp Life
Season 2025/26 Part 2
The Season starts and new climbing gear from our sponsor Beal arrives.
Camp Life
Not just questionable beta and dirtbag stories - although there's plenty of both. Life from the perspective of the ones who call this crag home.
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Camp Life
Season 2025/26 Part 1
Every October, Green Climbers Home comes back to life after the rainy season. Before the first climbers arrive, there's weeks of repairing, building, digging, and problem-solving. Here's a look behind the scenes as we prepared the camp for the 2025–2026 season.
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Season 2024/25. Part 10
Water fights for Lao New Year, learning the Lao language and climbing at Xe Bang Fai cave.
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Season 2024/25 Part 9
A traditional Lao spirit ceremony, weeks of uncertainty reopening a climbing area, and how a climbing comic was born during one of our hardest seasons.
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Season 2024/25 Part 8
This chapter describes the first fatal climbing accident in Laos from my personal perspective.
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Season 2024/25 Part 7
Read about staff climbing sessions and the featured article "Climbing through cultural barriers" in the British Mountaineering Council's Summit magazine.
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Season 2024/25 Part 6
From Lao police stations to the German embassy, a simple passport application turns into three days of bureaucracy, misunderstandings and unexpected humour.
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Season2024/25 Part 5
Crux Season, the camp fills up for Christmas and New Year, our improvised restaurant is pushed to its limits.
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Season 2024/25 Part 4
Rebuilding after the fire: four weeks of improvisation, community support, language mishaps, and small victories that brought the camp back to life.