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Friday, August 27, 2021

Salbitschijen-south ridge. A contender for the finest alpine rock climb?

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  The Salbit with its south ridge on the left. July was a terrible month from a weather perspective.  It rained incessantly, it was cold, it...
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Britain's finest climb: The Old Man of Hoy.

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The BBC 1967 outside broadcast put the Old Man of Hoy on many climbers bucket list. Rather like the Falklands before the 1982 Falklands W...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

The Best Laid Plans..

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 We had a plan .  The plan was to do the Bernese Haute route which starts in Diablerets and finishes in Kandersteg.  It was all looking good...
Wednesday, March 03, 2021

Covid February in the alps is not complete sob story

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 With the start of February we still enjoyed perfect conditions until a weird phenomenon hit us one Saturday morning .  The whole of the alp...
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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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