What's new in the mountains this week?

The conversation went something like this : "You have the old map the glacier doesn't look like this any longer." said the Au...

What were once classic snow and ice routes which were traditionally climbed in the summer are now routes that can only feasibly be climbed...

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...