What's new in the mountains this week?

This last winter sort of swamped me and it became difficult to Guide, to be continually clearing snow and be thinking about writing a Blog. ...

Sacha Kamp "was" a snow boarder and I very good one at that . After all he had lived in Chamonix and spent a lot of time in the m...

It doesn't really matter if you have a base of 10 meters of snow or a base of 1 meter of snow if its all rock hard and icy. Your going t...

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...