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About the Fell & Rock Climbing Club
The Lake District is a compact mountainous area in the north west of England containing so much and attracting so many with its scenery, culture and huge range of activities. Scattered amongst these fells is a stunning collection of crags with routes for everyone.
The Fell & Rock Climbing Club (FRCC) is one of the oldest and largest (currently over 1100 members) rock climbing and mountaineering clubs in the United Kingdom. Our roots are in rock climbing and fell walking in the Lake District, but activities of our members also encompass fell running, ski-touring and mountaineering worldwide as well as many other diverse outdoor activities.
Meets
There is an extensive meets programme, with meets not just in the Lakes District, but all over the UK and abroad. Members are active all over the world.
FRCC Huts
We have seven huts and cottages – five in the Lakes and two in Scotland. Two also have cottages attached to them for which parties, including children under 13, have booking precedence on certain weekends.
Guidebooks
We have produced all the definitive rock climbing guides to the Lake District since 1922, as well as winter and selected guides, and the recent book – “Nowt but a fleein’ thing” – about the history of climbing on Scafell. Rock climbing is ever evolving and we acknowledge changes in the nature of Lakeland climbing and have funded bolting at locations such as Bramcrag Quarry and other crags in the Lakes.
Latest News
Applications for Associate Membership for the 18 February 2023 Committee Meeting If you have any comments either to support or query, please send comments to membership@frcc.co.uk Applicant NameProposerSeconderSupporterSupporterApplication for AssociateMeets or 4 suppHut Visits1Paul WinderEwan WhitmeyNicholas SmithSusan JensenDerek BuckleAssociate4 Letters12Jonothan WrightNick HarrisClare HarrisPeter HaighPete FarnellAssociate4 Letters03Susan MarvellBrian FinlaysonChris EilbeckJames DalgarnoPeter SimcockAssociate4 Letters34Keith WadsworthSteve LuntPeter Rowley Associate3 […]
Eric Brown Lees was a Major in the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. At the age of 40 he was killed in action on 31 July 1918. He is buried in Harponville Communal Cemetery. Son of E B Lees J P of Thurland Castle Kirkby Lonsdale, husband of Mary F Lees. He was educated at Eton […]
Here’s a quick diagram for the status of membership applications…
Once again the Club is delighted to be able to support this annual event. We have prepared extracts from current guidebooks for the enchainements and combined routes which are located on higher crags. As always we welcome constructive feedback about grades, descriptions, photo-diagram accuracy etc, please use the route comment page for this. The Club […]
The new test FRCC website is live, and I have completed the first drop of the new FRCC theme with a number of changes as agreed. Here’s a list of changes: The test system is created – https://test.frcc.co.uk/ I have changed the theme to use sans-serif fonts PT Sans and Raleway. These are very similar […]
Wow! The latest FRCC publication, Lake District Rock, has won the guidebook category at the Banff Mountain festival. What a great achievement for the FRCC Guidebook Committee. Congratulations!