What's new in the mountains this week?

Sunday, June 07, 2015

The Ibex of Cingino Dam .

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Last week I got a call from the BBC to ask if I could help rig a camera for a unique never been attempted film project. The plan was to...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Still very good skiing to be had - if you know where to look

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So Alison, Yvette, Kevin and I parked the car at the Emosson Dam and started walking across the Dam at about 6.30 am. Our first challenge...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Just when you thought it was all over... Winter returns.

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Steve Callaghan contacted me because he wanted to restart climbing after a long lay-off . He felt he was a bit rusty and wanted to brush ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Ski Season Ends abruptly.

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The weather messed with our plans again. Peter Folkman and I had a plan to traverse the Eastern Oberland on skis. The weather had differen...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Figure of 8 ski tour around Chamonix& bit of Switzerland

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Another fine week of weather allowed us to set up a very interesting beautiful ski-tour where we even met Christophe Jaquet on the top of th...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Traverse of the Eastern Bernese Oberland

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This was an exceptional week of ski touring. Chris Dovell Lia Heisters and I left Chamonix at 6.00am. Chris was good enough to drive. I slu...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

Week of big wind

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John Young arrived at the start of the week with a really bad forecast. Typical of the change in the equinox. There was 50cm of snow very ...
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Mark Seaton
The current President of the British Mountain Guides Mark Seaton, a member of both the British and French Mountain Guides Associations. Based in Chamonix for over 30 years, Mark has guided people from all backgrounds, each with their own mountaineering ambitions. His work has ranged from leading a blind man with no previous mountaineering experience to the summit of Mont Blanc, to guiding clients on serious alpine routes such as the North Face of the Eiger. He has also worked on television projects, including as a camera safety specialist for the BBC series Forces of Nature, which filmed ibex on the Cingino Dam in northern Italy. Mark is the author of the Mark the Mountain Guide children’s book series, published in the UK, USA, and France.
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