What's new in the mountains this week?

We continue to have excellent skiing conditions .  Reuben and Fiona Berg joined me for a few  days .  On our first day we skied off piste at...

They are as reliable as the Atomic Clock.  Every 25th January 17.00hrs on wards they can be found in the Savoy Bar in the village of Argen...

The weather at the pick up was not great .  In fact it was snowing quite hard.  It was touch and go as to whether we would fly, yet the he...

Richard Lewis and his good friend Joe Gold skied with me for a few days.  Richard lives near lake Geneva but Joe was coming all the way fr...

Charles Sherwood heads off into the Aravis Since before the New Year it had not snowed.  Neither had it snowed in the first week of 2019...

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

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

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

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