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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Stuningly Good Skiing in Zermatt

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I drove over to meet Francis Bridgeman, Sahil Sinha and Angus Montgomery who were all staying in Zermatt. The weather was good and so was t...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Gressoney Powder Verbier icy moguls Chamonix spring snow

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Reuben & Fiona Berg and I started our 6 days together in Gressoney with fabulous sunny weather and dreamy spring snow descents. The next...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Breche de Berard

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Very quiet in the aiguille rouge today. Part of the reason might have been the the train strike , which in the end was just a reduced servi...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Dangerous Sisters Hit the Powder and then the rock

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Great thing about the spring here is sometimes it is possible to ski bottomless powder in the morning and then spend the afternoon rock clim...

Crevasse rescue

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It is all very well skiing around on glaciers in knee deep powder but there are holes out there and its a good idea that everyone in the gro...
Friday, April 02, 2010

Col du Passon

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There had been lots of snow. It had fallen without wind. It was Easter and the forecast was good. All this adds up to lots of people. The...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Great snow - pity about the Vis

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On Tuesday Dan Braverman and I went on our 1st ski tour together over the Col Crochues. As we made our way up we noticed a staggering amount...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Grand Paradiso [almost]

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Greg Knott Bill Mills and I headed for the Grand Paradiso national park in Italy on Friday. The forecast was poor for the Friday but it was ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

The weather forecast was wrong

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The weather forecast was wrong [Thankfully] I arrived at the bottom of Les Grands Montets to meet Robert Blake- James and his 3 sons Richar...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Mark the Mountain Guide goes on tour in Switzerland [again]

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I have had a very pleasant three days visiting International schools along the "coast" of lake Geneva. I was there to tell the chi...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Walking Dead.

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This was weird firstly I got told not to wear my ski boots in a the Reception of the Grands Montets Hotel by the Idiot Manager. I pointed o...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

Big Kids Off Piste Safety Talk

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I gave the inaugural "Big Kids Off- Piste Safety Talk" last night at the Church Hall in Chamonix to a lot of children and their p...

Too Cold For Comfort

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Generally it is possible to cope with very cold conditions, the issue is when it is windy and cold. I was up at the top of point Helbronner...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Really Really Bad Snow

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Well finally it happened. So far until today we have had great skiing. All that changed. Chris Dovell and his pals joined me for a days sk...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Mixed weather but always good snow

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I believe the quality of the snow is always the most important requirement for great skiing. If there is a choice between beautiful sunny d...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Cruising the Resorts

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I spent the last week skiing various resorts in Chamonix and the surrounding areas with Maighread. She is equally keen on finding good plac...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentines Day

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Skiing up at Brevent on what must be the busiest day of the season as it was the start of the school holidays and perfect blue skies and gr...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Three different days

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Stephen Yeates John Donner and Mike Woolford came out for their annual trip to Chamonix to ski with me. On Our first day we struggled to se...
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Great Snow in the low resorts

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The theme of these last few blogs is stay low. It has been very cold and the snow in the lower resorts has been as good as it gets. Howeve...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lots of different stuff

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The weather continues to bring lots of cold snow which is great. On Thursday I was out in the thick of it with Nick Rowles learning about s...
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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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