Last week myself (Pete), Conall and Phil attended an action climbing training in Germany run by our good friends from Robin Wood. Situated in the lovely German countryside town of Lutter, we stayed at an old gothic castle which had been bought by an anarchist group in the 1980s and rebuilt from almost ruins.

The schedule was pretty tough and the course was intensive, up at 7:30am (actually about 8:00am we're a bit lazy), out to the trees by 9am and then climbing till lunch at around 12:30/1ish then climbing again from 2:30 until about 6/7pm.

Led by Tobias, who some of you will know from Action Camps 2005/6, we we taught technical clmibing techniques that could be used for activism, much of it was developed by the activists who lived in the trees at Newbury.

After a week of hanging about in trees it is quite a pleasure not to have to wear a harness, but also sad to have to leave, having made some good friends in such a short time. Hopefully we can collaborate with Robin Wood more often in future as they are a really fun and interesting lot.

With these new skills we can now go forward and train more activists in the UK and be more active for Tibet.

You can check out Robin Wood at www.robinwood.de it is mostly in German though.

Pictures of the week soon to follow.