What's new in the mountains this week?

Charles Sherwood and I headed over to Andermatt and the Salbit Hut with some ambitious plans. Like a lot of mountaineering plans it was thw...

After a long time and children grown up Helen and Martin Whitehouse had decided to restart their mountaineering careers. They hired me to b...

Ariel and Antony enjoyed a cloudless windless traverse of the Aiguille de Crochue - Antony had climbed it before but this was Ariel's fi...

Jason Donavan and his son Lloyd joined me for a week of perfect weather and perfect conditions. We started our week with a visit to the Mer ...

The best out door shops have the best staff. Staff who know what kit does what how it works. This way they can recommend the correct equipm...

Reuben Berg and I planned a trip where we would climb in a different mountain area through out the week while taking in some of the finest r...

Peter Little decided to go and climb the South Ridge Of Salbitschiijen. We were not disappointed. It is possibly one of the best climbs of...

This phrases could just as well be attributed to mountaineering trips. Our plan was to complete the mountains above Zermatt which form the ...

Andrew Parker had harbored a dream to climb Mt Blanc since a failed attempt nearly 20 years ago. Recently the opportunity to have another g...

Pam Mazoyer and Chris Moss joined me for three days in order to improve their mountaineering skills. A day on the Mer de Glace was foll...

The weather hasn't been very co operative and anyone with out a flexible state of mind is likely to have been frustrated. Fortuna...

Scott Todd flew in from the US for a few days in Chamonix and was keen to get up high and do something spectacular. So I suggested we climb...

We decided to finish the ski season by over nighting at the Grand St Bernard Monastery. Andrea invited some of her friends Mia Ged and Noah ...

I bailed from Arolla the previous day and then found my self in Zermatt the next day. I was with Greg Knot and Bill Mills with the plan of ...

Continuing the theme of difficult conditions Henry Alex and James [split board snowboarder] met for an attempt on the Haute Route. This was...

Peter Folkman had a long term plan to head to the Dolomites for some ski touring. It became apparent that there was no snow. We changed pla...

The ski tour from Les Diablerets to Kandersteg is one of the finest multi day ski tours in the alps. Chris Dovell and Lia Heisters and I ha...