Sam and Ed are at Ceuse for 3 weeks as part of their 3 month Euro road trip and have sent us the following ticklists....

Ed commented....

"Having a blast at Ceuse. Great routes and good conditions.  Good to see the a Brit go past last week wearing the prestigious green jersey in the Tour de France.  Enjoying the walk in and getting super fit.  Plenty of visitors passing through.  One week to go and then off to the IFSC event in Bulgaria for aweek while Sam keeps ticking routes and then we rendez vous in Innsbruk again in early August, anyway here's a quicklist"

Here's Sam Hamer sending Bourinator 8A....thanks Ethan Walker for the picture...

Monnaie de singe 8a 3rd go, Berlin 7c onsight, Rodhodendrons 7c+ flash, Galaxy 7c onsight, Le privilege du serpent 7c+ onsight, Mirage 7c+ onsight, Petit tom 8a flash, Radote joli pepere 8b 2nd go, Blocage violent 7b+ onsight, Dolce vita 8a+ 2nd go, L'errance dune passion 7c onsight, La couleur du vent direct 8a+ 2nd go, La chose 7c onsight, Le colenette 8a onsight, Le magicien de riga 7c+ onsight, Bibendum 7b+ onsight, Bourinator 8a flash, Carte blanche 8a flash, Suerus froides 8a+ onsight, Vagabond d'occident 7c onsight, Blanche fesses 7c onsight, Correspondence imaginaire 7c+ onsight, Corpes etrager 7c onsight, Violent illusion 8b 4th go, Queue de rat 7b+ onsight, Makach walou 7c+ onsight, L'amie de tout le monde 8b 2nd go.

Sam's been climbing well and has managed the following routes in around two weeks:
Super Mickey 7b (os), Keket Blues 7b (os), La Pinerie 7b (os), Blocage Violent 7b+ (os), Queue de rat 7b+ (rp), San Johns Pecos 7b+ (os), Alabama 7b+ (os),  La Femme Noir 7c (os), Galaxy 7c (rp), La Chose 7c (rp), Berlin 7c (rp), L' errance d'une Passion 7c (f), Hyper Mickey 7c (rp), Vagabond d'Occident 7c (onsight), Blanches Fesses 7c (os), Corps etranger 7c (os), Les Rodhodendrons 7c+ (rp), Teuchipa 7c (os), Makach Walou 7c+ (os), Mirage 7c+ (os), Le Migicien de Riga 7c+ (rp), Carte Blanche 8a (Redpoint), Bourinator 8a (Redpoint), Petit Tom 8a (rp), Les Collenetts 8a (rp), Dolce Vita 8a+ (rp), La Femme Blanche 8a+ (rp), Seurs Froids 8a+ (2nd go).

Read more about Ed Hamer and see more videos here...

Read more about Sam Hamer and see more videos here...

See Ed and Sams choice of shoe here....

Wild Country and Red Chili climbers Ed and Sam Hamer talk about their climbing and their upcoming road trip while dispatching some Raven Tor classics... Ed and Sam are two bright prospects in UK climbing and as climbing brothers seem to get on remarkably well to make a strong team.
Ed, (known at the Wild Country office as 'the future' for his remarkable ability) has been on the on the British Junior competition team for many years, climbed 8b+ when he was 17, has climbed several gritsone E7's (blaming Tom Randall for that!!) and bouldered up to 8a+. At 19 he's in the last year of representing the Uk at Junior level and after coming 10th in Edinburgh in May at the Uk round of the 2011 IFSC European Youth Cup (EYC) is hoping to build on that over the next couple of months whilst on his road trip.
Sam's a strong all rounder who's was then picked for the British Junior climbing squad as well but in his own words "had a great time, but in the end realised that competitions were not for me and what I really wanted to do was climb on real rock! Which for me, is what it’s all about!!" Since then Sam, 22 been super active and has sent several E8's including My Piano and End of the Affair, on sighted up to E6 and has climbed 8b sports routes as well as bouldering up to 8a.
We're super psyched they're on our team and you can read more about them and see more videos here:
wildcountry.co.uk/​community/​sponsored-climbers/​uk-sponsored-climbers/​sam-hamer/​
wildcountry.co.uk/​community/​sponsored-climbers/​uk-sponsored-climbers/​ed-hamer-uk/​
Thanks to Adam Lincoln for the video....

An Evening at Raven Tor with the Hamer brothers from Wild Country on Vimeo.

James Pearson has sent us this quick report following his trip to Newfoundland...

"I'm sat in Deer Lake airport, Newfoundland, waiting for my flight home.  This seems like a very long trip, mainly because of the amount of waiting and hoping for good weather, which sadly never came.

I left Europe around the 6th of July, and up until today I have managed to climb 2 full days!  Thats not very much - in fact, I would say it is right up there as my least productive trip ever.  The weather here completely sucked!  According to locals it is their worst summer for 30 years, unrelenting fog and rain, mixed in with winds up to 70mph - pretty grim.

Still, its wasn't a complete wash out, and on the few dry days we were actually super productive, establishing a new route on the cliff during our first day, and on-sighting the current hardest route on our second day.  The cliff is very impressive, 1,300ft of good quality granite rising directly out of the ocean, and currently has a selection of free and aid routes upto upper 5.12 and A4.  The top of the cliff is capped by some big roofs, which I feel would go free at around upper 5.13, but were completely soaked the entire time meaning I could only look and not touch!

The mist actually had one benefit - incredibly atmospheric photo and video courtesy of the guys from Camp 4.  I saw some of the raw images before Tim began working and have to say they are probably my best images of the year so far, which was a nice consolation for not climbing very much.  I made sure to be wearing the new Alpine Project Jacket, helium friends and Quantums, so you should all be pretty psyched on the results!

I will start blogging about the trip when I get back, over at my new domain (jpclimbing.com, which should all be working in a few days), but thought you would all appreciate a little advanced report."

See more about James here....

Twelve lucky readers of Climber magazine should be getting their hands on their prizes right about now - twelve shiny new Helium Friends...

As ever Wild Country's generosity knows no bounds and so far this year we've given away over 50 of these fantastic new units to readers of Climb Magazine, Rock and Ice magazine and now Climber magazine.

The lucky winners of this latest competition who correctly told us that the new Helum Friends have up to 20% more range than the previous models are: Adam Wilson, Andrew Hindley, Andy Manders, Bob Johnson, Christina Sklebar, Clive Vardakis, Dan Caldon, David Sargent, Gareth Earls, Hannah Philips, Thea McKinley.

Read all about Helium Friends here...

You can check out who's who 'down under' as we've just updated our 'Sponsored Climbers' section to include all of our Australian team members - both Wild Country and Red Chili...

Expedition Equipment who distribute Wild Country and Red Chili are active in the scene and they've gathered some top names to spread the word including Rob LeBreton, Carlie Le Breton, Matt Adams, Scoots Walters, JJ O'Brien, Andy Richardson and many more....

You can see all our Aussie climbers here....

And to show you some of what they're up to down there here's a bit of neat footage of Josh Thewell, one of our Red Chili guys....