I've had a few days skiing in the Atomic Backland Boots now, so here are a few thoughts. Navigating the baffling range of available ski kit gets harder every year, so hopefully this might help. I bought the ...
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It's been a while with no blog! Autumn has been busy, but there's snow in the garden now and winter is just around the corner. It looks like a proper winter too - already there's enough snow to ski, and more forecast this week, and the lifts ...
We set off on Sunday for a couple of days with a flexible plan...and returned to the valley this morning, 6 days, 4 huts and 7 summits later. A great week of exploring around the upper Val d'Hérens. Day 1 was a gentle approach to ...
It's been a busy week, starting with the Dent Blanche South Ridge, Petite Dent de Veisivi, and a day rock climbing. I finished the week with the Performance Alpinism team on the Eiger Mittellegi ridge - a very...
Another excellent "Alpine Progression" week, with 4 fit clients pushing the limits of their experience and certainly making a lot of "progress"! This course aims to be as flexible as possible, allowing people with previous UK, Alpine or ...
The Dent Blanche is the emblem of the Val d'Hérens, Evolene's Matterhorn. At 4357m it dominates the view from the village. I'd been thinkingto myself) about trying to climb it in a day from the valley...then I carelessly mentioned the idea ...
Here are a few pictures from last week's Intro Alpine Course. Thanks to Andy Perkins for the photos and for running the course! The 3 guests were all fit, and regular indoor wall climbers, looking for an instructional week before ...
Rock climbing at Sanetsch yesterday. The Col du Sanetsch is the opposite side of the Rhone valley to Evolene and has fine panoramic views south to the high Alpine peaks - plus a 200m high limestone crag! We climbed "Au Bord Du Vide", a ...
Cheilon adventure yesterday. After a comfy night at the Cabane des Dix we made an early start for the normal route. There's still lots of snow, but a good freeze overnight meant fast progress and we reached the Col de Cheilon at ...
We warmed up for this week's North Faces Course on the La Gouille Arete of Mont Vélan - not exactly a North Face, but plastered in snow and ice after the recent storms, it felt like one!Confident that conditions had at last ...
News of the result reached us by text this morning, halfway up the Weissmies, and a small team of shocked Brits exchanged a few words on the summit.Of course, we'll be continuing with the summer programme of guided climbing and ...
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I've had a few days skiing in the Atomic Backland Boots now, so here are a few thoughts. Navigating the baffling range of available ski kit gets harder every year, so hopefully this might help. I bought the ...
It's been a while with no blog! Autumn has been busy, but there's snow in the garden now and winter is just around the corner. It looks like a proper winter too - already there's enough snow to ski, and more forecast this week, and the lifts ...
We set off on Sunday for a couple of days with a flexible plan...and returned to the valley this morning, 6 days, 4 huts and 7 summits later. A great week of exploring around the upper Val d'Hérens. Day 1 was a gentle approach to ...
It's been a busy week, starting with the Dent Blanche South Ridge, Petite Dent de Veisivi, and a day rock climbing. I finished the week with the Performance Alpinism team on the Eiger Mittellegi ridge - a very...
Another excellent "Alpine Progression" week, with 4 fit clients pushing the limits of their experience and certainly making a lot of "progress"! This course aims to be as flexible as possible, allowing people with previous UK, Alpine or ...
The Dent Blanche is the emblem of the Val d'Hérens, Evolene's Matterhorn. At 4357m it dominates the view from the village. I'd been thinkingto myself) about trying to climb it in a day from the valley...then I carelessly mentioned the idea ...
Here are a few pictures from last week's Intro Alpine Course. Thanks to Andy Perkins for the photos and for running the course! The 3 guests were all fit, and regular indoor wall climbers, looking for an instructional week before ...
Rock climbing at Sanetsch yesterday. The Col du Sanetsch is the opposite side of the Rhone valley to Evolene and has fine panoramic views south to the high Alpine peaks - plus a 200m high limestone crag! We climbed "Au Bord Du Vide", a ...
Cheilon adventure yesterday. After a comfy night at the Cabane des Dix we made an early start for the normal route. There's still lots of snow, but a good freeze overnight meant fast progress and we reached the Col de Cheilon at ...
We warmed up for this week's North Faces Course on the La Gouille Arete of Mont Vélan - not exactly a North Face, but plastered in snow and ice after the recent storms, it felt like one!Confident that conditions had at last ...
News of the result reached us by text this morning, halfway up the Weissmies, and a small team of shocked Brits exchanged a few words on the summit.Of course, we'll be continuing with the summer programme of guided climbing and ...
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