What's new in the mountains this week?

Imagine you are in the mountains,the weather is horrible,the visibility is at times zero, the avalanche risk is high. Wouldn't it be c...

Peter Whelan joined me for four days off of piste skiing and ski touring around Chamonix. On our final day we were joined by Walter an asc...

The big snow fall which Chamonix and the surrounding area has desperately waited for finally arrived. It was the sort of season saving snow...

Just had two very good days with the party which has been organised with Chris Boulton and friends in one form or another for 20 years. They...

The trip did not get off to the best start. I was delayed twice and missed my 1st two flights due to fog in London. Finally arrived at Hea...

We left the comfort of the Fair View Hotel having scraped most of the mud of our kit, dried it all out ready for our attempt on Mt Kenya. W...

There was no snow of any sort before Christmas . In fact on Christmas day I rode my mountain bike up the piste to Brevent.[Which was hard ...

This is the only word I can think to describe the start of the ski season. It is only 8 November. Yet after a recent dump everywhere looks v...

Scott Todd contacted me. He lives in the USA but his job had sent him to Germany for 3 months and he was keen to do some sort of climbing- a...

There is no doubt that if you hit the right weather late September early October can be the most beautiful time to be in the alps. Peter Fo...

Francis Bridgeman ans I enjoyed some varied climbing in and above Chamonix and then for the second half of the week we headed to Kandersteg ...