Join the club

Member's Benefits

• Weekly London meets & reduced admission - at Mile End Wall on Wednesday evenings and regular meets at The Castle (Mondays usually) provide an outstanding environment in which to train, socialize and plan climbing trips.
• Informal trips - almost every weekend to the UK's best climbing areas, including North Wales, Pembroke, Cornwall and the Peak District.
• Social events - from our summer barbecue to our new members' meets and annual dinner, we organize some of the best occasions in the London climbers' calendar.
• All tastes catered for - whether you want to trad climb, go winter mountaineering, sport climbing, alpine climbing, climbing in the greater ranges, aid climbing or even chalk climbing, you'll find people with similar interests.
• Quarterly newsletter/regular emails keep you up to date with events, news, gossip & more.
• Club huts in Snowdonia - situated near some of the best climbing and hill walking in the UK, offer accommodation at exceptional value for money. One known as 'the cottage', is available to members and their guests, while "the barn" is let out both to groups and to club members.
• Affiliated membership - of the British Mountaineering Council which includes third party insurance and a copy of the BMC Summit magazine.
• Discounted upgrade from affiliated to individual BMC member- For just £15.20 you can gain access to the full range of Individual Membership benefits see the BMC's site for more info
• Mountain courses - the club regularly subsidizes courses in topics such as first aid, rope techniques or navigation at Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre.
• Discount - at many outdoors shops.

Membership is open to all those who live or work within the M25 and those outside the M25 subject to the committee's approval.

Meeting us

The club meets every Wednesday in London at Mile End Wall to climb and socialize – staff at reception know many NLMC members and will be happy to point us out. Contact Naomi, our New Members' Secretary.

After climbing sessions on Wednesdays the club retires to the Palm Tree, a pub about two minutes away from the climbing wall in Mile End Park. Once again, the NLMC is well known there, and the staff will point you in our direction. Print outs of our application forms are also available there.

We also climb regularly at the Castle on a more informal basis (usually Mondays) – contact Naomi for details.

You are welcome to try the club out at any of our formal social events – check our meets list and email (Naomi). Additionally, groups of members go away almost every weekend to climb all over the country. These trips are arranged informally at the club’s sessions on Monday or Wednesday and are an excellent way of finding out more about the club

How to join

We welcome new members at all levels of ability and in all fields related to climbing and mountaineering.

Whether you are just starting your climbing career, or are extremely experienced, and whether you trad climb, sport, or you want to go mountaineering, hill-walking, ice-fall or even chalk climbing, you will find like-minded people and a supportive atmosphere here.

Membership is open to all those who live or work within the M25 and to those outside the M25 subject to the committee’s approval.

To join you will need two members’ signatures on your application form – there will be plenty of people at Mile End and the Castle willing to sign your form. Fees and types of membership are on the form.