What's new in the mountains this week?

We had a perfect forecast , a good freeze and little wind. Andrea and I left the scrum of the Aiguille du Midi and trotted down the ridge an...

Here is a photo of the Gd St Bernard Monastery taken form the summit of Mt Velan at 9.20 am From the other direction we could see the mi...

Take a good look at the big rock and you will see me standing under it. Then look at the same rock a month later. The glacier has melted ...

I spent the last couple of weeks climbing with all ages of people , but all who wanted to understand a little more about what the Alps has...

Its never great when you go to bed and then have to get up the same day. We were in our beds at 8.30 pm then up at 12.50pm, breakfast at 1....

Peter Little turned up for a weeks climbing. Peter, having climbed everything in the Alps that its practically possible to climb is always ...

I don't normally write about our family holidays unless there is a mountain related incident or event. We had a trip to Zip World - The ...

James Vernon joined me for a week. The aim was to have a bit of a refresher, get some acclimatisation under our belts and at the end of the...

The summer mountaineering season started on Monday and the tempertures soared to a mighty 36degrees. Reuben and I started the week with an ...

May is the time when the weather settles down after the normally unsettled weather of the equinox. This wasn't the case this May and we...

Peter Little and I have climbed together at least twice a year for the last 25 years all over Britain and the Alps. It was therefore only ...

So it went from 24c to 30cm of snow in the garden over night and the most widespread high avalanche forecast I had ever seen. All this coi...

Charles Sherwood and his daughter Tabatha joined me for the ski tour which sets off from Les Diablerets and arrives in Kandersteg. The most...