Sunday, August 14, 2016

Girls on Le Tour.

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Millie and Honour are just at the right age to start alpine climbing with a night in a Mountain Refuge. If you are lucky enough, a goo...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Ultra Peaks - not always the highest but always the most spectacular.

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Stephen Kellock had come all the way from Canada to climb with me and discover what the Alps were supposedly all about. We had climbed a...
Monday, July 04, 2016

No better experince as a Dad than to climb with your children.

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The chance to be in the mountains and share experiences with your kids is one of the best things in the world. The trouble is the older...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

How to become a very good mountaineer :Quickly.

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Sacha Kamp and Brett Ansley turned up with the brief that they wanted to learn the key skills of mountaineering. They were both fit and str...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Magnificient week with an utterly depressing last day

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David Folkman and Dee Anand joined me for an expedition to the Monte Rosa massif high above Gressoney/ Alagna just up from the Aosta valley...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Car Crash of a weather forecast

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The first casualty of the war is the plan. The plan being to climb Mont Blanc. Masses of snow , high avalanche risk and as crap a weather ...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Mont Aiguille: Climbed by some Yokel in 1492. How hard can it be?

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Mont Aiguille , seen from the wonderful RN75 Grenoble to Sisteron road is spectacular. In fact it looks formidable from every aspect. It r...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

The Weather! Sounding like a stuck needle in a Vinyl Disc?

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It started badly - I made the call to Chris. I said the weather forecast looked like anything to do with skiing was going to be a bad idea...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Flexibility is the name of the game

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It was a pretty impressive performance from two blokes who thought they were going skiing but ended up suspended from a limestone cliff in t...