Your burning questions answered with Auntie Gravity | Summit Magazine

Introducing Auntie Gravity – the all-new 'advice' column from none other than Niall Grimes, now a regular feature in our members' magazine, Summit. Auntie G is here to answer all the burning questions you never knew you had. Whether it’s figuring out the perfect climbing call to impress your date at the crag, or settling once and for all if the best climber is really just the one having the most fun—Auntie Gravity’s got you covered.

Check out a sneak peek below, and if you're not already flipping through Summit, what are you waiting for?

"I hear you Bunny, and I’m behind you all the way. Let’s keep it old school. What’s going to happen to your route finding when there’s no signal? What’s going to happen to your morals when the battery dies? Right or wrong?

The other big advantage of a compass over GPS – a GPS tells you where you are; but every compass, thanks to their built-in arrow, tells you where to go. And that’s what you need mostly. The moral compass might tell you that you are to far south, that you need to tighten up, need to do better. At the same time, it might say you are in the ‘moral north’, that you are doing too good, that you need to loosen off, let some air in. In this respect, it bears a lot of resemblance to the tried-and-trusted layering system. So get your compass out and cove some distance. One word of warning all the same – when you are using your compass, be that the Silva or the moral, always remember – you have to take deviation into account!"

Yours sincerely, Auntie Gravity

Send in your questions to Auntie Gravity at summit@thebmc.co.uk