Profile of Malcolm Smith. Photos Jerry Moffatt

Name: Malcolm Smith.

Age: 28.

Profession: Professional Rock Climber.

Number of years climbing? Thirteen Years.

What is your favourite crag and why?
Bas Cuvier at Fontainebleau. There are so many hard, quality problems there and I've got a lot of good memories of the place.

What is your favourite bouldering area and why?
Fontainebleau again, it's the home of bouldering and there's so much of it.

What is your favourite band or album?
I'm not a great music buff but Travis are good, I enjoy being depressed.

What's your favourite film?
'Scar face'

What was the last book you read and did you enjoy it?
'It's Not About the Bike' by Lance Armstrong, it was incredibly inspiring. The guy nearly died of cancer then came back to win the Tour de France.

Where did you first start climbing and were you immediately hooked?
In Northumberland, I loved it straight away. Very quickly, I realised that was all I wanted to do.

What area of climbing would you say is your weakness or the area that you have to work on the most? For example, power, stamina, technique etc.
Stamina. My power and technique are good. For a climber of my weight stamina is harder to achieve.