What's new in the mountains this week?

Just finished a fantastic week of off piste skiing with Russell Bragg It was Russell's first real commitment to off piste skiing and he ...

Just finished a stint of 10 days contentious skiing where it snowed most days. Chamonix was shut several times but we just jumped in the La...

More snow has already fallen so far this season than in the whole of the last ski season which is good. What is even better is that there i...

Marc Le Guide teamed up with Quechua tomorrow. There will be a book signing in their Sallanches shop between 3.00pm and 5 pm .

I have done a lot of different things in the mountains recently. Last week Catherine Lewis and I spent the day on the Mer de Glace getting ...

Finally the French edition of Mark the Mountain Guide is out. This time in soft back. At present copies can be ordered from me [signed ...

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...