What's new in the mountains this week?

Yesterday Florence and I made a delivery of several copies of Mark the Mountain Guide to the Cosmiques Refuge, where they are no...

We started the week on a dry note and it went fairly damp pretty quickly. This shot of the sun resting over the Minch was briefly glimpsed ...

Francis Bridgeman and I spent four days ski touring. The last couple of days we headed up the the Grand St Bernard. I was staggered how mu...

So every year I end up saying I am staggered by how often we get stacks of snow in late April. I shouldn't be suprised because it seems...

After the mega melting the conditions stabilized and we got some good spring skiing conditions. Reuben and Antony Berg skied at Les Grands ...

Well from having one of the best snow seasons for years and talk of the season going on for ever the snow has gone from the valley and we ar...

Florence Seaton won the Chamonix mini Coup beating her best friend Erica into second place. Florence was in 2nd place after the first run ,...

Hard to describe what happenend but Jeff Brown and Faerthen Felix and I turned up in Courmayeur for a rendezvous with a helicopter. The pla...

Tom Leeming,Henry Grant, Alex Law, Charlie Langton and I had to abandon the Haute Route at the Montfort hut above Verbier. This was not bef...

Bill Mills and Greg Knott were very keen to attempt a tough challeging hut to hut ski tour which did not involve being with lots of other sk...

Stacy Williams timed it right by arriving for some off piste skiing just after 30 cm of fresh snow. We left the Chamonix Valley and headed ...

Reuben and Fiona Berg were joined by their daughter Rachel for 6 days skiing. At first the weather was warm and the snow suffered. Thankfu...

You need four highly motivated members of the Gibou Club Peter Folkman, David Freud, Peter Ward and Ian Ansell. You need a helicopter provi...

Maighread Condon Simmons and I spent a week skiing together in perfect conditions. On one special day we were joined by Walter for his firs...

Photos from the Bobbie Burns Lodge have started to arrive at our house. The best came from Will Pedder who recorded the first ever Gibou [H...

Anyone can ski powder. It takes real skill to ski snow like this. This snow was found at the bottom of a gulley behind Le Tour heading dow...

Jane & I are just back from 6 days Helicopter skiing with Canadian Mountain Holidays CMH at the Bobbie Burns Lodge. We were part of the...

We have been skiing all over the alps this week enjoying some of the best conditions for ages. This has helped Leo Cackett build his new po...

Francis Bridgeman and I did the classic col du Crochue Col du Berard ski tour. This was Francis second ski tour and gave him a taster of sk...

The Flying Grannies reconvened in Klosters for five days off piste skiing. They did not see a cloud all week, the snow was great and the Gra...