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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

I call him the "Alpine Metronome." The climber with the perfect alpine pace.

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Peter Little approaching the summit of the Pigne de la Lé Nearly thirty years of climbing together in Wales, Scotland the Lakes, the Pea...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Mt Blanc. The first ascent of the year on foot was hard earned.

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Jody Laoureux crossing the Gouter Couloir Global warming has been messing with the traditional climbing seasons for a while. For examp...
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Rite of passage? Its a bit like ski touring only different.

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Sunset from Wildstrubel Hutte If you come to the Alps for your holidays the one word you never want to see on the weather forecast is Fo...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Traverse of Europes biggets Ice cap. La Vanoise.

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The challenge of having skied and climbed with the  same people consistently for over twenty years is that we are constantly having to s...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

The Glacier d'Armancette

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April, at some point. always brings unstable weather with the change of the equinox - "April Showers." Last week was no dif...
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Mark Seaton
The current President of the British Mountain Guides Mark Seaton, a member of both the British and French Mountain Guides Associations. Based in Chamonix for over 30 years, Mark has guided people from all backgrounds, each with their own mountaineering ambitions. His work has ranged from leading a blind man with no previous mountaineering experience to the summit of Mont Blanc, to guiding clients on serious alpine routes such as the North Face of the Eiger. He has also worked on television projects, including as a camera safety specialist for the BBC series Forces of Nature, which filmed ibex on the Cingino Dam in northern Italy. Mark is the author of the Mark the Mountain Guide children’s book series, published in the UK, USA, and France.
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