What's new in the mountains this week?

Monday, February 20, 2023

In the foot steps of history- Gd St Bernard Monastery.

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The Grand St Bernard Monastry is an extrordinary  place to visit, especially in the winter when it is completely cut off, and the only way t...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Hold your Nerve

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  Wow! There had been lots of conversations between Dax, Mark, David and myself about the early season  evolution of the snow in Klosters.  ...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Dire conditions finally turn good.

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  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...
Tuesday, January 03, 2023

All the way from America

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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...
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Saturday, December 03, 2022

Mark the Mountain Guide

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  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...
Friday, November 04, 2022

A Reality Check: An Interview with Zeit on line.

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  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 ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Not to be our day.

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