Pics here from the Leukerbad 777 night race. All good fun if you like that sort of thing! Swiss Team in elegant white suits, Mrs Frostguiding in pink on the right... And they're off! There's been some good proper skiing too...
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At last, a good climbing wall in the Valais. The Vertic-Hallein Saxon claims to be the first climbing gym in the Valais which isn't really true, but it's easily the best with a proper 15m lead wall, bouldering, café and ...
Driving away fro the Alps on Tuesday it was snowing heavily - luckily I'd put the snow tires on on Monday or I'd not have made it over the col de la Forclaz. Anyway, a few hours later we were driving along the Italian coast in the sun, although ...
Yes, winter is here and it's time for avalanche training, and the first few wobbly ski turns of the winter - always an exciting time! I did 2 days in Saas Fee last week for thePeak Leaders BASI ski intructor courses. Excellent snow ...
Here are a couple of pictures from Tuesday in Chamonix. The Aiguille du Midi lift closes this weekend, but we used it this week for a traverse of the Pointes Lachenal. Lots of fresh snow, chilly, but a beautiful day. There's some good climbing ...
With the season nearly over, here's a look back at the summer...- Gran Paradiso.2x Chabod normal route1x Vittorio Emmanuelle route- Mont Blanc.1x as far as the Vallot hut.1x Gouter route, return from Tete ...
I'm not a big fan of helicopters - "10,000 parts flying in close formation" and all that - but with one day of good weather and lots of fresh snow in the mountains it seemed the best way to get up high. Flying from Sion with ...
Back to Italy again for the Gran Paradiso, this time from the Chabod side. Weather all over the Alps has been terrible with snow, cloud and very strong winds making poor conditions high up, but there was just a slight chance of a window on ...
Climbing the Gran Paradiso with the Dutch Army yesterday. This was part of a fund raising trip by the army in support of families of soldiers killed and injured in Afghanistan. Conditions were great - if a little chilly - on top with ...
Last week's acclimatising days went well but the forecast for our planned summit days was hopeless - lots of snow on Wednesday and then very cold and windy. Luckily we were able to re-schedule - a few frantic phone calls to rearrange ...
As the snow settles down conditions are quickly becoming very good in the high mountains. We travelled back round to Zermatt on Wednesday and walked round to the lovely Ayas hut.On Thursday we were first away from the hut. A ...
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Pics here from the Leukerbad 777 night race. All good fun if you like that sort of thing! Swiss Team in elegant white suits, Mrs Frostguiding in pink on the right... And they're off! There's been some good proper skiing too...
At last, a good climbing wall in the Valais. The Vertic-Hallein Saxon claims to be the first climbing gym in the Valais which isn't really true, but it's easily the best with a proper 15m lead wall, bouldering, café and ...
Driving away fro the Alps on Tuesday it was snowing heavily - luckily I'd put the snow tires on on Monday or I'd not have made it over the col de la Forclaz. Anyway, a few hours later we were driving along the Italian coast in the sun, although ...
Yes, winter is here and it's time for avalanche training, and the first few wobbly ski turns of the winter - always an exciting time! I did 2 days in Saas Fee last week for thePeak Leaders BASI ski intructor courses. Excellent snow ...
Here are a couple of pictures from Tuesday in Chamonix. The Aiguille du Midi lift closes this weekend, but we used it this week for a traverse of the Pointes Lachenal. Lots of fresh snow, chilly, but a beautiful day. There's some good climbing ...
With the season nearly over, here's a look back at the summer...- Gran Paradiso.2x Chabod normal route1x Vittorio Emmanuelle route- Mont Blanc.1x as far as the Vallot hut.1x Gouter route, return from Tete ...
I'm not a big fan of helicopters - "10,000 parts flying in close formation" and all that - but with one day of good weather and lots of fresh snow in the mountains it seemed the best way to get up high. Flying from Sion with ...
Back to Italy again for the Gran Paradiso, this time from the Chabod side. Weather all over the Alps has been terrible with snow, cloud and very strong winds making poor conditions high up, but there was just a slight chance of a window on ...
Climbing the Gran Paradiso with the Dutch Army yesterday. This was part of a fund raising trip by the army in support of families of soldiers killed and injured in Afghanistan. Conditions were great - if a little chilly - on top with ...
Last week's acclimatising days went well but the forecast for our planned summit days was hopeless - lots of snow on Wednesday and then very cold and windy. Luckily we were able to re-schedule - a few frantic phone calls to rearrange ...
As the snow settles down conditions are quickly becoming very good in the high mountains. We travelled back round to Zermatt on Wednesday and walked round to the lovely Ayas hut.On Thursday we were first away from the hut. A ...
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