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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Arolla

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So the plan was to finish the Haute Route having been forced down to Arolla two years ago. Peter Whelan,Nigel Costain and John Howarth all ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Haute Route for science

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We have just come back from the Haute Route which we did with out a road break going via La Fouly then onto the Grand St Bernard Monastery t...
Friday, March 09, 2007

As Good As It Gets

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On Wednesay we skied at Les Grand Montets. Despite the best efforts of the lift station management coupled with an incorrect weather foreca...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Very good off piste at Le Tour

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Stephen Yeates, John Donner and Mike Woolford skied at Grands Montets in zero viz yesterday and today we were rewarded with good weather and...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Combloux Giettaz

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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...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Weather gone mad

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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...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Introduction to ski touring

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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...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

Whitepod

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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...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

la Giettaz

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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...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Big Change in the weather

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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...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Rosablanche

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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...
Monday, January 29, 2007

A New Resort Each Day

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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...

Good Tree Skiing

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

Big Freeze

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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...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Flying Grannies

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The 14th year of the Flying Grannies took place in Klosters.This years team included Sue Mills,Carol Wengraff, Joanna Sanders,Viv Turnbull (...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Ice Fall Climbing

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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...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Glacier du Toule

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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...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Stunning snow conditions on the col de la Terrace

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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...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

We Have Snow. [At last]

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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....
Monday, October 16, 2006

North Face Eiger Storms

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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...
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Mark Seaton
The current President of the British Mountain Guides Mark Seaton, a member of both the British and French Mountain Guides Associations. Based in Chamonix for over 30 years, Mark has guided people from all backgrounds, each with their own mountaineering ambitions. His work has ranged from leading a blind man with no previous mountaineering experience to the summit of Mont Blanc, to guiding clients on serious alpine routes such as the North Face of the Eiger. He has also worked on television projects, including as a camera safety specialist for the BBC series Forces of Nature, which filmed ibex on the Cingino Dam in northern Italy. Mark is the author of the Mark the Mountain Guide children’s book series, published in the UK, USA, and France.
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