What's new in the mountains this week?

The weather has been far from settled and coupled with lots of other issues it made for a challenging week which was only half successful. ...

Our attempt to climb the iconic Nose of El Captan did not get off to a good start. We left the campsite at 6:30 AM and immediately got stuck...

The plan was perfect. We were going to re do the Haute Route exactly 20 years to the day since the first time Chris Boulton and I had compl...

I was delighted when John Young got in contact . We first climbed together in Scotland in 1992 and skied together a couple of times in the ...

Chris & Lia and I set off from the 1st cable car at Grands Montets where we suffered a very bumpy ski down to the Argentiere glacier. We...

There is no doubt that our stand out day this week was a trip to Les Daiblerets. It is a bit of a trek from Chamonix - [an hour and a half]...

It is not often that pretty much everything goes according to plan. Clearly having 5 days of perfect weather help but in addition good snow...

Bill Mills and Greg Knott arrived towards the end of a period of weather that had been bakingly hot. In fact my view was that the Off- Pist...

This was a trip a long time in discussion and as the date for departure neared the excitement levels increased. The team consisted of Cathe...

The weather has been magnificent clear and hot. I had four days skiing with Reuben and Fiona who were joined by their son Antony who we wor...

Skiing Knees. Things are not always what they seem I ski a lot, over a hundred days a season. Most of it is off piste some times in marv...

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...