What's new in the mountains this week?

To day we had a perfect days skiing. Fiona, Antony and Reuben Berg started by skiing knee deep powder through the trees and the skied off th...

From no snow in the garden and the grass turning green we now have a meter of snow. Most of Chamonix was either closed or partially open. R...

Peter Collins and his two daughters Alice and Lucy and Alison Redesky and her daughter Daisey and her son Oscar came ski touring. On our fi...

We drove from Chamonix through deep snow and over the col du Montets and round to the small ski resort of Les Marcottes. The weather cleare...

Today there was not much visibility so we skied through the trees at La Giettaz. It snowed all day and we made fresh tracks until we got bo...

Maighread Simmons and I have been skiing in around Chamonix for the last few days. It has been threatening to snow but not much else. Today...

John & Finn Cackett and I left Chamonix and drove to Sion Airport. After coffee we jumped in a helicopter and flew to the Rosablanche j...

One of the beauties of Chamonix is that it is a "Hub" from which you can reach a bunch of world class resorts in less than an hour...

Charles Sherwood and I managed to snatch a day skiing together in Combloux, despite the piste being in poor condition the off piste towards...

Finally it got cold dropping by about 20 degrees everything went from bright green to white. John Cackett his son Finn and I headed for Zer...

The 14th year of the Flying Grannies took place in Klosters.This years team included Sue Mills,Carol Wengraff, Joanna Sanders,Viv Turnbull (...

We seem to have had days and days of beautiful cold clear weather the result is that many of Chamonix's ice-falls have come into conditi...

We thought the snow was good yesterday but today it was even better and we had good clear weather. Tom Henry Xavier and I drove through the...

Despite the fact that most of the skiing is not yet open in Chamonix there is infact loads of good snow. Today Tom Lyster and Henry Faure W...

The snow has at last arrived. We had about 20 cm of fresh in the garden. It has been raining all week and snowing down to about 2000 meters....

Charles Sherwood and I went round to the North Face of the Eiger with a perfect five day forecast. We set off in good conditions and climbed...

We now have perfect anticyclonic autumn weather with beautiful clear and warm days. Yesterday Mike Woolford Stephen Yates , Steve Trantum a...

Roger Brookes and Martyn Read came to Chamonix with the aim of getting to grips with Alpine climbing. On our first day went to the Mer de G...

Peter Little and I started the week by climbing high above Montreux We climbed the Dent de Jaman a giant limestone pillar with stunning vi...

Roger Cunliffe has wanted to climb Mt Blanc for several years but each time he was thwarted by the weather or poor conditions. Today the wa...