What's new in the mountains this week?

Charles Sherwood and his daughter Tabatha and I have just finished a wonderful ski tour. It was Tabatha's 1st ski tour and it had just a...

Just spent 4 days with Mark Locke and Ian Hutchinson. It was hot and it just seemed to get hotter, but because the sun stayed out we manage...

Sophie was given permission by her teacher to skip school and ski the Vallee Blanche with her Mum & Dad. Sophie scuttled down the ridge...

The seemingly endless love of striking has made the logistics of getting back from various ski tours a challenge. Before this I skied the Va...

Drove round to Monthey in the Valais and met up with Richard Lewis for an ascent of the Dent du Valerettes. Stunning views toward lake Gene...

Mike Flynn joined me for 3 days - the brief was to ski interesting off piste. "Interesting" it was. Good snow it wasn't. Th...

Three or four seasons ago when it was raining at 3000 meters in January I promised I would never complain about being cold again. We craved...

Ski & Board's photo editor John Norris wrote a piece about completing the Haute Route with me a few years ago

Last week Chris Boulton brought out his annual ski group. They are creatures of habit: Same hotel [the Couronne] same bar [the Office] same...

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...