What's new in the mountains this week?

To day Reuben Berg and I went to Les Contamines and climbed "Les Nain Jaune Attends." This is a route with a great name with a ye...

At 2400 meters there was 50 cm of fresh snow the other night. It settled down very quickly so Andrea Florence and I skinned upto the Grand ...

Chris Dovell and I drove over to Grindlewald and headed up to the Monch Hut in glorious weather. The plan was to climb the Jungfrau and the...

So we have had more snow coupled with high winds and mixed forecasts. Chris Dovell and I looked at the weather and decided to head to Italy...

14 years ago I promised to ski off the summit of Mt Blanc with Peter Folkman. I had confidently told him that we could get a helicopter to ...

Peter Folkman and I have had a good three days ski touring at altitude. We climbed the Col Du Argentiere. Yesterday we were in the Valley B...

So I have just come back from two of my favorite places in the alps. Bill Mills and Nigel Prescott and I climbed up to the Gd St Bernard Mon...

The Chamonix club des sports had thier end of season race . Like her big sister at the same ageFlorence came first in her catergory. Andrea ...

We have had about 3 weeks of perfect weather. While this has been quite pleasant, it has been hot and the snow has started to disappear ver...

Chris Dovell and I are just back from a day of sensory overload. It started at 7.00am as we travelled through the Mt BlancTunnel to Courmay...

To day we skied the glacier de Grande. It was a month since I had last been there and conditions were very good. We had 1900 meter descent...

I had a couple of days off so I got the chance to ski the Valley Blanche with Andrea who is eight years old. We did it last May but conditio...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...