What's new in the mountains this week?

The skiing season started on the 9th December when Catherine , Bella and Lucy-Kate rendezvous in Saas Fee for an early season attempt on the...

Peter Folkman flew in from Manchester on Sunday evening picked me up from a cold and snowy Chamonix at 6.00pm . By 10.00pm we were sitting ...

October was an unusual month. I came back from Nairobi and then headed to the Mipcom TV market in Cannes where I spent a week working on a ...

This was a trip which had been planned for over a year; Charles Sherwood and I were naturally very excited . It started well. Even the arr...

Francis Bridgeman joined me for a week of Mountaineering and rock climbing. The weather wasn't perfect and so we had to be creative and...

Charles Sherwood joined me for his annual summer climbing trip. The weather had "been" perfect but true to form all that changed...

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 ...