Around this time last year I visited North Yorkshire with some friends to rig the most ambitious highline of my slacking “career”. The location was Malham Cove, an intimidating 90m limestone formation carved out of the dales by an ancient...
So I was lucky enough to make a quick trip to another bouldering Mecca this winter and was really keen to find out what it's like to boulder in Switzerland. Being predominantly a sport climber I was super excited to...
When I was younger and hatching plans to run away from school to pursue kayaking full time there was one place at the top of my list, The White Nile in Uganda. Home to perfect waves, huge rapids and warm...
I spend a lot of my time on the road traveling and on trips to find the biggest and most awesome water on the planet, and whilst my life is not exactly filled with luxury there are some items that...
My best day of Free fall. So far. A snapshot by @MelissaHucksom of the best day of free fall we have ever had. @we.are.send @palmequipment @wernerpaddles @dewerstone @shred_ready_helmets @riverlegacy @pyranhauk @gformprotects #Chile #kayak #kayaking #waterfall #River #sport #adventure #explore A...
So once again I decided to take the plunge- excuse the pun, and enter the DWS comp for the third year running. This year entered into the dewerstone team with local legends and WADs Mikey Clevedon and Tom Bunn, I...
Legendary paddler, dewerstone ambassador and all round good guy Bren Orton gives us a round up on what was a hell of a charity challenge. Great work Richard Brooks. Far too often sponsored charity challenges are elaborate reasons for students...
dewerstone 2015 // quite a year…. As we approach the merriment of Christmas and the undoubtable shenanigans of new years, we felt it worth us looking back on the year thats passed and what we got up to, as it’s...
Our man James Weight gives the low down on the biggest freestyle kayak event of the year, the SAS Hurley Classic. Words: James Weight Pictures: Jack Gunter Once again the Thames’ Hurley Weir played host to one of Freestyle Kayaking’s largest competitions....
Deep Water Solo at The Quay//Our kind of event… Words; Rich Pearson Pictures; Tom Bunn Through a host of weather conditions our friends at The Quay Climbing Center managed to pull off the second official deep water solo climbing competition...
Some time ago dewerstone put our support behind the British Universities Kayaking Expedition to Madagascar. Going on a kayaking trip with your fellow uni students to explore unknown rivers in a far off land, whilst helping to promote Madagascar as...
On October 10th we hosted yet another of our 'open days' to let people see what we do, and to encourage people to come in and enjoy our space. Here's how it went down. Words: Rich Pearson Pictures: Simon Potts...
Every now and then something we've been working on for ages comes off, this time it's pretty special. This time it's the Incus. We wanted to write up a little about why the Incus is special and why we're super...
Having welcomed aboard our latest brand ambassador - 22 year old James Merryweather - we took some time to catch up with the big guy and find out what makes him tick. So, James;...
Dewerstone Ambassador and UK top 3 freestyle kayaker James Weight fills us in on the British Champs... Words: James Weight Pictures: Jack Gunter Last weekend the British Freestyle Championships were held in Nottingham to crown the best freestyle paddlers in Britain. This...
As most of you know, here at Dewerstone HQ we are very much in love with Dartmoor, so it seems fitting that in the winter we go paddling at the heart of the moors; the mighty River Dart. Now summer...
Having joined Dewerstone as a brand ambassador and later as media and communications manager for the team, Rich has been a part of Dewerstone since it began. This is how he came to be a part of the family.I grew...
Earlier this month, we spent a weekend supporting the world's biggest kayak competition - the National Student Rodeo, at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham. It was a great weekend which was enjoyed by all; here's a few of our...
We hope you've all had a great start to the New Year, I know we definitely have here at Dewerstone! January turned out to be a very hectic month at HQ, dispatching orders, building our new in-office bouldering wall, creating...
Dewerstone ambassador Tom Bunn recently got back from a rather enviable month climbing in Yangshuo, deep in remotest China. Once the jetlag had subsided, we interviewed him to get the inside line on what it's like to crank hard at...
And so, as the past 12 months slowly drift to memory and we start living the adventure that is 2015, all of us here at dewerstone towers would like to wish our customers, friends and supporters a happy new year....
