What's new in the mountains this week?

One day its -15c and I'm using "T- Bag" footwarmers the next day its +5c and its raining. Well it was raining in Chamonix but...

The snow was predicted , but when isn't it predicted in a ski resort? Nevertheless this time the amount forecast was wrong.Yet happil...

Well sort of. To be frank it did not get off to the best start. We arrived in a snowy Cervinia and everything was looking very wintry. ...

The leaves started to change colour and importantly the weather became un settled which thwarted Francis and my plans to finish the season w...

Nick Graham returned to climb with me after a two year break. We started our week together by climbing the Voie Caline. The slightly har...

Peter little travelled out from Keswick for a second week of climbing with me. We decided to go on one of our traditional explorations and ...

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...