What's new in the mountains this week?

The impressive thing about the weather this Autumn is that we have had one or two days of bad weather, heavy rain , snow and then the high p...

Weather has been amazing and managed to steal a couple of days rock climbing with Francis Bridgman. The first above Argentiere on the Chese...

Conditions and the weather have been so good last week that I ended up climbing Mt Blanc twice. The first time with Mark Daniels on Tuesday...

This stunning photo was taken by Peter Little of what turned out to be an outstanding climb: The arête des Bouquetins pic Jallouvre above co...

Michal & Mihaela came all the way from Australia on their European tour [unfortunately without the VW Combi] and stopped off for a weeks...

Peter Folkman came out for five days alpine rock climbing. The forecast was indifferent but unusually it was revised in our favour and the w...

Charles Sherwood and I had a very good week. We started with a complete traverse of the Violet Towers in the Val di Fassa. We then moved ov...

Arther Boulton was joined by two of his pals Fergus and Rory for an "Ecole de Glace" high up on the top of Les Grands Montets....

The Youngest Dangerous sister put her Dads 40 year old Mountaineering boots on and attacked the Glacier.

I spent a week visiting some of my old haunts with Francis Bridgeman and Chris Dovell. We started on Skye and climbed pinnacle ridge o...

Jane and David were not so sure if they wanted to become alpine climbers but were determined to really find out if they could do it I c...

So this was the idea behind last week. 5 friends : Their organiser Katie Cranlegh Swash, Fern Adams, Chris White, Richard Lewis and Chris Do...

Well the news was not good as the Hut Guardian broke the news at Dinner. Needless to say he couldn't keep a straight face. [The underpa...

I met up with Gareth Peaple and we decided to try and defy the forecast by heading up to the Tete Rousse Hut. The next day we moved up to t...

Met up with Marc Le Guide translator Christophe Jaquet and climbed the spectacular Poeme a Lou high up on the Brevent. It was made even bet...

I'm not talking about the weather but the calm before the French school holidays when the whole world descends on Chamonix. Francis Brid...

This was the question Bob Dyson decided to answer by joining me for the last 4 very hot days he was completely new to it. This is what he c...

I started the alpine climbing season all reved by the wonderful stable weather we had enjoyed but just as I was about to start the weather p...

Well the perfect weather did finally come to an end. The first plan was to climb the Aiguille Verte but conditions had changed and it was n...

I have just completed the High Level Route in near perfect conditions where for the first four days we didn't see a cloud, the snow was ...