What's new in the mountains this week?

Andrea complete with race suit. Photo professionally taken as she travels in excess of 80kph. In mid December I was in Alps d'Hu...

In the weekend that spans the start of December and with snow on the ground in Chamonix I joined  a group of my colleagues from the Brit...

Aiguille Dru . This year the British Mountain Guides held their Annual General Meeting in Chamonix.  My good friend Alan Kimber, Brit...

The Aiguille Dru . Fabulous October weather coincided with Reuben and Antony arriving in Chamonix.  Antony reminded me he actually hadn...

Back in 1983  I was one of  the first people to be employed on the  “Night-Watchman” scheme at The Scottish National  Outdoor Training Ce...

Always a trick question but the highest mountain entirely in Italy is the Grand Pardiso.  Just like the Aiguille Verte is the high...

 Rocio Mountain Guide & Teacher prepares the top rope for the" ice climbing" session. There are several schools based aro...

The spectacular Dos d'Elephant There is never much point trying to crow-bar a particular wish to climb an alpine route into an un...

It took a long time.  It was now four years since David Brooksbank emailed me asking me whether he could climb the Weisshorn after a 40 year...