Andy Hyslop Leaves UKClimbing.com

© Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com

A personal message from Alan James:

"After 13 years involved with UKClimbing.com, Andy Hyslop is moving on to concentrate on his other business interests (and free up a bit of spare time!)

Andy was instrumental in starting UKClimbing.com in the early days of the internet 1995. His vision at this time was to develop a climbing and mountaineering based news and information site which was free to use. This solid early strategy is one of the main things that has marked out UKC from many other similar ventures and the site you see today has grown slowly and organically from these early beginnings.

After linking up with myself and the Rockfax forums in 2001, UKClimbing.com became a limited company. Andy's pragmatic business sense helped the company to easily navigate the Dot.com bubble and emerge as one of the World's busiest and best climbing and mountaineering web sites.

On behalf of all at UKClimbing.com I would like to thank Andy for all he has done over the last 13 years and wish him the best in the future.

Andy's departure leaves UKClimbing.com Limited in the sole control of myself (in a business sense) but with the same strong team behind me of Mick Ryan (Advertising Manager), Jack Geldard (Editor), Nick Smith (Technical Manager) and also Charles Arthur, Jonathan Lagoe and Tom Briggs, who all help on other parts of the site. At this point I don't anticipate any changes in the direction for the company and hopefully we can continue to develop with the same blend of user-features mixed with the essential commercial developments to fund the site."

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4 Jun, 2008
Good luck Andy!
4 Jun, 2008
All the best Andy, though you do realise you'll only end up spending more time on here seeing what's going on in your absence :o) Mike
4 Jun, 2008
Yes, would strongly echo this sentiment. Have never met Andy but have many happy memories of Rock & Run in Sheffield. Setting up and maintaining this site was probably a herculean task. Although it's a playground where we occasionally misbehave, it's still a cherished playground. Thanks! And good luck with other projects. Mick
Thanks for the kind comments guys. I'm sure Alan, Mick, Jack and the rest of the UKC team will keep things rolling along just as well without me (probably better), and I wish them all the best for a successful future. Andy
4 Jun, 2008
Get your skates on Andy. Hodge Close at 4pm...me and Fat Elvis are on our way. Pints are on me. Mick
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