What's new in the mountains this week?

I was joined by very demanding teenagers last week. The problem with them is that they have too much energy and this energy needs to be chan...

Lloyd Donovan is probably the keenest of the keen when it comes to alpine climbing and he arrived to climb with me for six days. Prior to o...

Climbing and Mountaineering trips are all very fine , but the really memorable excursions are when it doesn't go exactly according to pl...

With a bit of imagination, luck and planning it is possible to get some amazing skiing on the longest day of the year. For the last few y...

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...