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Thursday, December 27, 2018

The winter Season so Far

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Andrea raises the Women's Varsity Cup. This season our eldest daughter, Andrea started skiing before I did even though she is at Un...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Arete de Marseille. The classic of the classics.

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Making the most of November ,  a "nothing month" between the end of the summer and the start of the winter can be a challenge,...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

A resort with issues.

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Economists will tell you "invest in the resort and the people will come." In Chamonix there seems to be the view: Don't Inves...
Monday, October 01, 2018

September Solitude.

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My favourite time to be climbing in the Alps is late Septemeber early October. Everyone has cleared off, it is cooler therefore less knac...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Lead Like a Guide

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Chris Maxwell is a Senior Fellow who works at the Wharton Business school. It is one of the most renowned business schools in the world. I...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Climbing Mont Blanc; A different Strategy?

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Catherine on the summit of Mt Blanc4810m The majority of people who have little mountaineering experience who dream of climbing Mt Blanc...
Saturday, September 08, 2018

Mellow Mountaineering

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Di, Martin and Clive joined me for four days. Di and Martin had visited Chamonix many many times for skiing , but not much in the summer....
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Mark Seaton
Mark Seaton is a member of the British Mountain Guides and the French Mountain Guides Associations. Guiding out of Chamonix for 30 years, Mark has climbed and skied with people from all walks of life. The most fascinating part of his job is that each client is unique: they all have completely different mountaineering ambitions. For example, Mark was the first Mountain Guide to lead a blind man (with no mountaineering experience whatsoever) to the summit of Mont Blanc. He is also one of few Mountain Guides in the world to have guided a client up the intimidating North Face of the Eiger. Mark has worked for BBC TV, most recently as the camera safety expert for part of their seminal series “The Forces of Nature”, which filmed the death defying Ibex climbing the Cingano Dam in Northern Italy. Seaton is the author of the successful Mark the Mountain Guide children's books which have been published in the UK, USA and France.
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