What's new in the mountains this week?

 Jake and his son Kit joined me for three days of ski mountaineering.  The weather and conditions were fabulous.  This was Kit's first i...

  It continues to be sunny cold and great snow, with the added adavantage of their being no one around. Grands Montets looking perfect. Skii...

Spring breifly falterered handing conditions back to winter quite decisively.  This is just as Charles arrived already to go ski mountaineer...

There has been a lot of snow in the Alps. It has thoughtfully consolidated itself into an excellent base, which, combined with largely stabl...

 Cal and his son James joined me for a couple of days in order for them to prepare for a multiday ski tour later in the season.   This was t...

  Solitude So Catherine Lewis and I visited the Hotel Weisshorn again.  This time Catherine brought her husband  Richard along too.  We arri...

  Greg & Bill having a picnic on the long appraoch road Fabulous weather and great snow cover meant our trip to the Refugio Benevolo was...

Conditions in the Alps continue to follow their familiar pattern of being either slightly too snowy or not nearly snowy enough. Mid February...

Iconic Land Rover in its element    Dax enjoying himself It was raining hard in Chamonix. Every ski lift was closing — or had already closed...

 Just spent four days skiing in possibly my favourite ski resort.  I still maintain that it has the best lift accessed of- piste skiing of a...

View from Crevacol looking towards the col du Gd St Bernard. Some time ago I promised myself that I would never again complain about being c...

  Last weekend I was fortunate  to attend the 50th birthday party of the British Mountain Guides which was held in Fort William Scotland.  B...

 There aren't many cable cars open in October in the Chamonix Valley, yet  at school half term the Flegere gondola is open for walkers. ...