What's new in the mountains this week?

The unstable April weather stopped and we got a week of perfect weather and exceptional snow. August and Turi and Valdi managed to go from...

The Chamonix lift system confused its self. They announced at La Flegere they were going to close for the end of the season. They then cha...

Well this guy Hannes Margrditer is an Austrian Ski Instructor who came heliskiing with me and I have never seen anyone ski better. Kevin O...

Alison Smith Katy Ferguson and Emma Greenaway, carved out some time away from children to go heliskiing, ski touring and a night in a refuge...

I spent the last week in Verbier with Fiona and Reuben Berg. Apart from one day it snowed at some point every day without any wind so the s...

The early April weather is proving to be April shower like. It is unstable but has produced some great snow conditions. Tom Lyster Natham ...

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...