What's new in the mountains this week?

Each year they come back and there is always the discussion of how long we have actually been skiing together. It seems that the core gro...

Possibly the last time there was such a massive avalanche risk , the internet didn't really exist. Therefore I had never seen a foreca...

I left Chamonix at 9.00am with the intention of meeting Laura and Marco on the road to Gd St Bernard at about 10.00am. I drove up to the Sw...

Towards the end of 2016 the skiing conditions low down in the classic resorts of Megeve were perfect. On 29th December , as they have done ...

Above are two photos of exactly the same place, the buvet at the Le Buet cascade. One is taken on Christmas day 2016 and one taken on Chri...

I recently returned from a British Mountain Guides training course which really did strip everything back to basics. It started by revie...

David Ford managed to carve out three days to come and join me and climb in the Chamonix area. In my view early October can be one of the b...

The plan David Brooksbank and I had agreed to was to climb the Weisshorn. This had been the previous years plan too. The problem is ...