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4 months ago

🎉 Well, we did it 🙌🏼

📚 The ebook is now available on our Etsy page- the link is in our bio! 🔗

✍️ All of the tips and tricks that helped us survive off just £10 a day each travelling across South East Asia, the apps we used, the gear we brought out with us etc

🗺️ 2 map links with TONS of useful information like accomodation for under £5 per night, cheap food, cheap scooter rental and more…

🧗 Loads of information on the places we climbed, hyperlinks to all of our crag breakdowns and info such as when it’s best to go, logistics, is it good for solo travellers etc

💰 £2 from each sale goes directly into a bolting fund so that we can give back to the climbing community!

For the last few months we have had our heads down making this thing, we are really proud of it and know it’ll be helpful to so many people who want to travel with limited funds 🤙🏻

Thanks so much for your support!!! 🙏🏻 by @climbing_backpackers

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2 years ago

Climb & Chill 5.0 Tenerife ❤️✅

We literally could not have had a better group, absolute 10/10 vibes, so soooo much banter and laughter, stupid games, a lot of try hard and great climbing 😎

These trips bring together all the things we love the most about climbing and we always leave with a bunch of new friends, this time was no exception.

Thank you guys so so much for coming, and being so understanding of the situation with me (Nettie) being too injured to actually climb/ make it to the crag. Next time I will be out there with you crushing!!

Another great thing that’s come of this specific trip, is that we will 100% be hosting more of these in Tenerife. So keep your eyes peeled for updates on that 😉

Sad it’s over, love you guys 🤙🏻 Until next time 👋🏼 by @climbing_backpackers

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8 days ago

I guess I’d better give another update.

This page is getting pretty quiet and that’s because things are not going so well.

In the space of 12 months I’ve rehabbed a torn rotator cuff tendon, a very limiting TFCC injury, and since June I’ve been struggling in various ways with my back.

On October 2nd, the day after arriving in Tenerife for our group trip the pain got so bad that I passed out in a car park and was taken to hospital.

The hospital kept me for 3 nights, did an MRI and tried to push spine surgery on me for a herniated disc (despite my symptoms not indicating that this is the issue)

Needless to say we got me tf out of there and I’ve been medicating myself through the days since, we fly home on Sunday.

Our South America trip is now, undoubtedly being postponed. We were supposed to leave for this adventure in 2 weeks but a walk around the park is enough to warrant strong painkillers so it’s out of the question.

Not sure what the near future looks like and how much I’ll be posting, I’ll update on here as things progress and keep on this endless grind of trying to get healthy again.

Thanks to everyone who’s being checking up on me ❤️
It helps a ton. by @climbing_backpackers

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9 days ago

Missing this 💔

Planned trips are approaching and I’m still broken.

Keep grinding and trying to get better, eventually I’ll be back but it’s taking a depressing amount of time, 1 step forward 2 steps back.

Remembering when I’d be upset about a finger injury, I hope I never complain about something so small ever again, if nothing else I have a new perspective.

Have a great weekend and stay healthy all x by @climbing_backpackers

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23 days ago

An update 🤕

This last 3 months have easily been the hardest for me in the last decade.

After returning from our last big Asia trip excited about my healing shoulder, I’d had about 2 solid months of feeling like myself again after months of rehab and wishing I could touch the rock whilst being in my favourite places ever.

I handled the injury well considering but obviously couldn’t wait to put it behind me.

The plan on returning to the UK, was to spend the next few months getting boulder strong again, visiting a bunch of crags across the UK and preparing for our next big trip.

Unfortunately, instead I’ve spent the majority of my time in the UK watching friends climb, and trying to stay positive whilst repeating strengthening exercises on a TFCC injury in my wrist that fell apart less than a month after our return.

This IS improving, but now my back is giving me hell, I’m guessing because I’ve been injured on my left side for a year I’ve picked up some serious imbalances… so even the easiest climbing is currently out for me right now.

The plan is still, to start in South America in October… I don’t have to be climbing at my limit, but I do HAVE to be climbing, or we will have to postpone.

I’ve now posted to this page consistently for 159 weeks. It’s never been a chore and I absolutely love it, however recently it’s not the same.

I’m going to take a step back until I can actually climb again, I don’t want our content to become generic crap. I want it to be full of real psyche and right now I can’t use my psyche no matter how much I want to.

Thanks to everyone who follows along on our journey, we’ll keep showing the ups AND downs and hopefully in the near future, there will be more ups ❤️ by @climbing_backpackers

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3 months ago

A little UK photo dump starting with the summer solstice morning with Be psyched for our 40km cycle!! ☀️

It wasn’t 40km. It was 67.7km. We aren’t cyclists.

Oats have been a lot more interesting with an actual kitchen to make them in- yes we still eat oats every day even when not travelling 😂

Feeling fitter than I have in a while with proper food and sleep for the first time in months 😅 Travel can be savage and months of it does have an effect.

Currently on a 46 day streak of stretching!! I may be injured but I can still come back into climbing stronger in other ways 💪🏼

Seeing friends and family ❤️ it’s nice to be home for a while by @climbing_backpackers

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4 months ago

Life is good following your dreams with the right people 🫶🏼

Not bored yet!! 😂

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@wildcountry_official @rafikiclimbing by @climbing_backpackers

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a year ago

✅ Asia round 2 🇲🇾 🇹🇭 🇻🇳 🇵🇭 🇨🇳

Another 256 days spent in some of our favourite places on earth.

This time has been very different from our first Asia trip, in both good and bad ways…

We hosted our first series of ‘Climb & Chill’ group trips, where 29 strangers became friends 🫶🏼 This was the absolute highlight of this trip and we want to host many more of these in the future! (Plans are being made 🤫)

We finally got to check out the Philippines 🇵🇭 and China 🇨🇳 2 countries that we didn’t make it to on our last trip.

We didn’t make it to Laos 🇱🇦 this time around… due to an injury that unfortunately has been another reason that this trip has been different and the reason we are ready to come home.

I (Nettie) have been plagued by injury throughout this trip and without consistent access to facilities where I can rehab/ heal properly, I’ve not been able to push my limits so I’m very excited to get fixed and strong over the summer before our next trip…

So… What’s next for us?

The plan is to head to South America in October for a whole new series of epic climbing 👀

It’s going to be completely new to us both, new budget challenges, different weather, different rock types, languages etc

Until then, it’s time for some UK adventures, spending time with friends. & family and repairing our battered bodies 😂

Feel free to ask us any questions in the comments ☺️

The pics here that actually look professional are thanks to @iceintravisit @normansphotogr 🫶🏼 by @climbing_backpackers

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5 months ago

🧗 It doesn’t always have to be that serious 😉

Our sport is so FUN!!!

A selection of photos taken by a selection of talented friends!! 📸

@climbing.kalymnos @tobydibble @dibbles.moments @karelcd @rafikiclimbing by @climbing_backpackers

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a year ago

📸 Yangshuo snaps by our talented friend @normansphotogr @normanmacdo taken in Yangshuo by @climbing_backpackers

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6 months ago