What's new in the mountains this week?

Bill Mills & Greg Knott joined me for what was to prove a packed and eventful week with a sprinkling of unpredictable encounters. We ki...

Yes the foehn is the word that is like a death sentence to a good skiing forecast. Its effects are well documented but needless to say it c...

It is 3 years since the final and last time I skied with the world famous flying Grannies in Klosters. I had been their Guide for 17 years ...

The start of the school holidays coincided with the start of the first real settled weather of the winter. The hoilday makers must have bee...

I was given the opportunity by Professor Murray Dalziel ,Dean of The Liverpool Management School, to deliver a presentation on managing risk...

Justin Emrich turned up with 3 of his pals, Mathew Pete Mark. It was about 6 years since Justin & I had last skied together and 15 yea...

Francis Bridgeman and Vincent Smears joined me for a week of ski touring. This would have been fine with little snow and clear weather . W...

Just finished a continuous 10 day stint of skiing in every type of snow and weather. At first the conditions had been very cold and this me...

The snow of the previous week set up Russ Bragg and I well. Nevertheless the weather in Chamonix was grey and miserable for our 1st day. W...

We have had a lot of good weather recently. Issue with this is that good weather doesn't produce snow and as time progressed it was nece...

We were told by our friends Jeff and Faerthen that the conditions in the Vallee Blanche were exceptional. I saw this as an oppurtunity to s...

Never have we had so much good skiing at this time of year. Just after Christmas Stephan Yeates , his nephew Chris and Steven Trantrum join...

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...