What's new in the mountains this week?

Easter is traditionally when your average skier cans the season and the resort quietens down. Normally the best snow of the season arrives a...

So this was the picture this morning.

Webcam So there is now a web cam pointing at the Aiguille du Midi from our Chalet

A couple of days ago we had grass growing in the garden. Now it is minus ten and we have big snow.

Winter is back. The snow has been good high up and on Good Friday Andrew Montgomery and I did the Crochue Berard traverse. The ski down to...

You know you have had a good days skiing when you have fallen in a river and have mud all over your kit. Fiona and Reuben and I skied all o...

Mike Woolford Stephen Yeates and John Donner and I were dropped on top of the Petit Combin in windy conditions. THe first few hundred meter...

Today Mike Woolford, Stephen Yeates and John Donner ski toured up to the Gd St Bernard Monastery. In the middle of nowhere we came across a...

After our success on the Haute Route we needed to get back to our start point - Arolla. We decided to fly back to the top of the Pigne d...

Peter Whelan Nigel Costain and I set off on the Haute Route four years ago. We met John Howarth along the way. Like so many times we got b...

Andrea and Florenece were invited by Maighread Simmons to fly to Zermatt for a days skiing. We flew across the Haute Route and landed at t...

Bob Mccormik came out for the weekend inorder to gain some mountaineering skills before he headed off to attempt Mt Elbrus in the summer. W...

The Gibo Heliski team joined me to Heliski in Switzerland. The team was lead by [the President] Peter Folkman. With him were David Freud P...

Seven years ago I fished Wouter out of a crevasse on Les Grands Montets and gave his father my card. Last week they phoned up and asked me t...

So I was persuaded by Chris Kevin Adam Pete and Steve to make a rare trip into the Valley Blanche. Surprisingly it was not busy. We had...

So today we planned to climb Point Percee but the road was closed. so we went for a plan B. We went back to the same area as yesterday and ...

we had a very good day to day. Chris Dovell and Simon Warren and I climbed up the Couloir de Doran and then skied some very nice snow back ...

John Cackett and two of his sons Finn and Leo skied six different resorts in six days. On Tuesday we skied in Combloux and had an excellent...

The Flying Grannies convened in Klosters and were all on very good form. We had excellent conditions and the tree skiing was too good to be...

I can not rememeber a better Christmas for skiing, it has been cold and clear with a good base of snow. This morning we awoke to 10 cm of ...