What's new in the mountains this week?

  Secret powder stash. Unless you have been living under a rock it is hard to imagine you hadn't heard that the conditions over the earl...

Mt Blanc seen from Les Grands Montets I first met Scott about 12 years ago. He was on a secondment from the US to Europe. Over several autum...

  The original Mark the Mountain book was published in 2008. It sold over 20,000 copies in the UK, US and France. It was decided it needed a...

  At the back end of August the European Climate Agency asked me if I would be interviewed for the German News paper Zeit.   The aim of the ...

The guardian of the Aosta Refugio with his flagon of "falling down juice."  The hut guardian was very keen to know what we thought...

Punta Frida seen from Refugio Lavarado.  John Young and I had our trip to the Dolomites in our diaries for well over a year .  It was just a...