What's new in the mountains this week?

To mark the publication of his new book Charles Sherwood has written a short piece on  How to Choose a Mountain Guide I first met Mark Seato...

Catching it right. On the way down to Le Plan The ski season was shaping up very nicely. A steady supply of unstable weather had prov...

I spent 17 consecutive years skiing in Klosters with the famous Flying Grannies. [The FG's]   http://www.markseaton.com/?s=flying+grann...

This person is actually standing up We have had some good skiing in the low resorts while the higher resorts of Chamonix have been trash...

22 years ago was the last time Kevin Tuck & I were last here. They returned again...  Not quite so many of them this year as last...

Florence gets good conditions on Les Grands Montets It lashed it down for what seemed like weeks, then it snowed and everyone was happ...

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...