What's new in the mountains this week?

Peter and I have been climbing together for a very long time. Since the 1990s, in fact. It was therefore only fitting that he should spend s...

 For many British Mountain Guides, the Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust courses are a regular fixture of the summer season. The Trust was es...

  Applesrudelhorn formerly known as the Matterhorn May was unseasonably hot. Properly hot. Too hot, really. June then arrived and quietly co...

The old Goûter Refuge is due to be dismantled this May. It feels like the wrong ending for a place that carried so much of the history of Mo...

 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...