The Climbing Backpackers

Directions Website

The Climbing Backpackers We are UK based rock climbers who left our jobs behind to pursue our passion for rock climbing everywhere we can!

We started by climbing our way across South East Asia on a budget of £10 each per day, now venturing to other areas 🌎

02/09/2026

Yeah I don’t really mind…

Dave was recording me stretching before doing my rehab the other day and watching the footage back I was shocked at the size of my arms 😂

Despite being injured for the best part of a year, I have not stopped trying to maintain strength around those injuries.

Now that I’m finally starting to introduce climbing movement once again, I am so so grateful for the effort I’ve put in and know it will make it SO MUCH easier to get back to where I was.

Boulder shoulders for life 😎 (even if I’m not really a boulderer anymore 😅)

22/08/2026

This sound just cracked me up 😂🧗🏼‍♂️

How amazing is this backdrop though? Dave in the roof a couple of years ago on our first round of Asia, it was 40 degrees in Laos but we were psyched out of our minds!!

Have you been? 🇱🇦

An update 🤕This last 3 months have easily been the hardest for me in the last decade.After returning from our last big A...
18/08/2026

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 ❤️

Address

Bracknell

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Climbing Backpackers posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share