What's new in the mountains this week?

Sunday, January 02, 2022

A couple of weather records - one welcome one not.

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  La Flegere -mid November Most of the Autumn was beautifully clear day after day. This lead you to think the weather could never change, le...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Perfect late season climbing conditions.

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September [generally] never disappoints from an alpine weather point of view.  This year due to the bad weather in July and therefore no ...
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Thursday, September 09, 2021

Aguille de Rochfort 4013meters.

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The Iconic ArĂȘte de Rochfort. Peter Collins and `I have been climbing together for well over 20 years .  Nowadays not so regularly  as we di...
Friday, September 03, 2021

Mont Blanc 4810m

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  Mt Blanc seen from Col de Dome 6.20hrs. It must have been twenty something years ago since Turi and Agust had climbed Mt Blanc.  They subs...
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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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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