What's new in the mountains this week?

The challenge of having skied and climbed with the  same people consistently for over twenty years is that we are constantly having to s...

April, at some point. always brings unstable weather with the change of the equinox - "April Showers." Last week was no dif...

50cm of snow fell in one night.  This was the view outside the kitchen window.  The day before had been okay ski -wise but there was littl...

Approaching the might North Face of the Doites This was a week of skiing that started well with good conditions and then it just got b...

Peter Whelan and I skied at Le Tour for our opening day.  The north facing slopes continued to hold very good snow and good skiing. The f...

For most of the season the weather systems have not produced the dreaded Foehn effect which brings miserable grey weather to Chamonix in...

My friend James Thacker along with his wife Alison  run the Off Piste Performance company.  The issue for them was that Alison was about...

I spent two days helping Ski Weekend run one of their big events for Polar Capital.  It coincided with a day of significant snow fall wher...

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...