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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Mixed weather meant we had to take it day by day

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  Strange light on the Bossons glacier Peter Little and I have been climbing together for over 30 years. In that time we have seen every sor...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Never regret getting up early -especially when it comes to alpine climbing.

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 Harvey took a job in London that actually ended up being in Paris.  Once he got over the intial shock it turned out to be a good thing.  Wh...
Monday, July 07, 2025

Training the next generation

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 I spent the last six days working on the highly rewarding Jonathan Conville Mountaineering Trust courses.  The details of the courses can b...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Last Corbett Party

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  This was a truely unique and wonderful experience: Along wife my wife Jane and seventy odd other guests  we were invited to climb John You...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Crazy when a Helicopter is cheaper than the train.

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  Doggles our Pilot. The Jungfrau railway is the gateway to the mountains of the Oberland.  It is also, for its distance, the most expensive...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

A Ski Traverse of the Oberland.

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  Extrordinary photo skiing of the Trugberg https://catherinelewisphotography.co.uk/home/ Despite living in Switzerland and being a keen cli...
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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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