What's new in the mountains this week?

The Dru after the storm.  The lifts are still closed in France and Italy.  But to paraphrase : Where there is a problem there is an opportun...

  I was quite astonished to turn up a Plaine Joux ski station to find the police directing the traffic and making sure every car was parked ...

Setting off for the Mole The lifts are still closed in France and Italy. In Switzeraland they are open. But for how long is a good qu...

Defender complete with chains - turns it into an unstoppable tractor. If you can't be bothered to read this blog you can listen to it by...

Aiguille Verte in all its autumnal splendour.  If you hit a good weather window, then  climbing in the Autumn in the alps is wonderful.  Cer...

Strange Times... The dates have been in the diary well before the word Covid had been heard of. Now that Catherine Lewis and `I  were due to...

A Happy Local Tyrollean. Hopefully in years to come it will be  difficult to imagine the complications involved in organising a climbing tri...