Welcome to the Midland Association of Mountaineers
The MAM is one of Britain’s national mountaineering clubs. Founded in 1922 it has over 500 male, female and junior members whose activities include mountain walking and rock climbing in the UK and abroad. The object of the Association is to encourage the pursuit of mountaineering in all its branches.
The Midland Association of Mountaineers Ltd is a Mutual Society under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965. Number 30861R on the register at the Financial Services Authority. Registered Office: Blackhams Solicitors, Lancaster House, 67 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 1NR
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Some photographs of climbing at Kalymnos are available at Photo Gallery - Kalymnos
Welcome to the updated website
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- Category: About Us
- Written by Bill Truscott Admin
You are now viewing the website after its update in November 2011. The main additional feature is that everyone can view the availability of places in the two huts and registered members can also make on-line bookings.
The update involved moving to a new version of Joomla, the content management system, and some features have temporarily been lost. If you find missing material or a broken link, please email Yvonne Bolton Smith (Web Librarian on Contact Us) or Bill Truscott (Secretary on Contact Us) who will then attempt to sort the matter out.
One problem that has now been resolved is the ability of registered members to alter their passwords after registration. This can be done by clicking on "Edit Profile" under the User Menu on the left of this page. Members can update their email addresses at the same time.
At the end of December work began in uploading scanned articles from the pre-2000 issues of the Journal. This has begun with the pre-war Bulletins (1933-1939) and gone on to the Journal from 1947 forwards. You can access articles through the Journal menu item on the left and then choosing the date which will lead to a contents page. Three sets of contents pages have been uploaded covering 1933-39, 1947-69 and 1970-2000; these are PDFs in which text searches can be made. The website search facility will also allow you to find articles.
Latest Circular and all AGM papers on the Website
The circular for May 2012 is now available to members. It has a number of hyperlinks within them. There are also AGM Papers on the website
Joint Meet with UBMC 11th/12th November 2011 Sarah Birkill
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- Category: Low House Meet Report
- Written by Yvonne Bolton-Smith
22 eager stoats and 4 keen MAM members attended this meet which was blessed with dry weather for most of the weekend. On Saturday, climbing groups set off early for Wallabarrow Crag, Raven Crag Langdale and Pavey Ark, whilst the ‘boulderers’ tested their skills in the Kentmere valley. After a good day on the crags the main activities began. The evening started with a brilliant firework display followed by a pub crawl (3 pubs for those who had the stamina)! One UBMC member provided entertainment by traveling around the hut and Coniston village on a ‘skate cycle’; thankfully, no bones were broken! The evening was rounded off with the usual punishing challenges: 2 finger hang game, broomstick game and cardboard box game.Rumour has it that MAM member Ian ‘fleximan’ Parkhouse won all of these. On Sunday, 2 enthusiastic freshers sneaked off early to climb 2 routes on Dow crag. The rest of us enjoyed a more leisurely start and had a misty day on Pike ‘O Blisco, climbing on Long Scar and Black Crag, where some UBMC members did their first outside leads. Prior to the meet, I had some reservations about coordinating a climbing meet in the Lake District in mid November, but I must admit I was sorry to go home on the Sunday evening. The UBMC members are very good company and an excellent time was had by all.