What's new in the mountains this week?

Just finished a week of exceptional skiing with Francis Bridgeman. It is part of the adage. "Give me bad weather and good snow as oppo...

Last weekend Catherine Lewis put a group of friends together. Our plan was to climb the rather unique L'Aiguille. A beautiful ski tour...

One of my Guide friends brilliantly described the name for this phenomenon. This is when you set off down some remote off piste run with yo...

I over heard a Brit in a cable car saying how he had been coming to St Gervais for 17 years and had never actually skied in Megeve. John ...

The trucks passing through the Mt Blanc Tunnel might be responsible for making Chamonix one of the most polluted towns in France but it has...

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...