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"Winter is coming!" This is my current favourite SBO*and my second favourite TLA) Duh! Of course it's coming.There's an outside chance that this is a subtle twist on the Christmas Turkey heuristic) I've been trying to ...
Just picked up a new pair of ski touring boots today from Lá-Haut in Sion - all we need now is snow! At the end of last winter I got the chance to try a prototype of the new Dynafit Hoji boot. It's very different in a ...
It's hard to beat a book of beautiful pictures as a source of ideas for next summer's Alpine trip, and as a motivator for keeping fit in through the winter! British Mountain Guide Ben Tibbetts has come up with the ...
Just back from a trip to Spain to the beautiful Siurana area. Expecting "Spanish" weather, I packed enough warm clothes to survive the autumn return trip to the Alps by motorbike - then hit Siurana in temperatures more typical of January ...
La Maya is the prominent tooth of red rock on the ridge separating the Val d'Hérens from the Vallon de Réchy.I'm not sure what a "Maya" is, but there are several of them around). From a distance it looks like a huge monolith of ...
Plan A had been to climb the Eiger but as is so often the case, plan A didn't work out! Bad weather over the weekend left the Eiger plastered in snow, and the Mitellegi hut closed. Instead, we climbed the Eiger's bigger neighbours, the Monch ...
The Obergabelhorn has 2 very different sides - a huge, snowy North face and a steep cliff of red rock to the South. The fine West-East ridge that splits the two faces is one of the finest ridge traverses in the Alps with a steep ridge of ...
A couple of nice photos from this week's Alpine Progression course. Starting at the Orny hut and then a day trip to the Perrons traverse. Thanks James Thacker for the guiding and photography! ...
People often ask if I get bored repeating the same routes - not when they're as good as the Portjengrat! After 2 days dodging showers on the perfect granite around the Orny hut...
It's a record-breaking summer in the Alps with temperatures reaching 36.2 degrees in Sion - the hottest ever recorded in Switzerland. Memories of the cold, snowy winter are fading fast...
Success on the Dufourspitze this week. The second highest summit in the Alps is a tough 1800m ascent from the Monte Rosa hut, and with the difficulties lying above 4200m on the final ridge it's arguably a harder climb than Mont ...
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"Winter is coming!" This is my current favourite SBO*and my second favourite TLA) Duh! Of course it's coming.There's an outside chance that this is a subtle twist on the Christmas Turkey heuristic) I've been trying to ...
Just picked up a new pair of ski touring boots today from Lá-Haut in Sion - all we need now is snow! At the end of last winter I got the chance to try a prototype of the new Dynafit Hoji boot. It's very different in a ...
It's hard to beat a book of beautiful pictures as a source of ideas for next summer's Alpine trip, and as a motivator for keeping fit in through the winter! British Mountain Guide Ben Tibbetts has come up with the ...
Just back from a trip to Spain to the beautiful Siurana area. Expecting "Spanish" weather, I packed enough warm clothes to survive the autumn return trip to the Alps by motorbike - then hit Siurana in temperatures more typical of January ...
La Maya is the prominent tooth of red rock on the ridge separating the Val d'Hérens from the Vallon de Réchy.I'm not sure what a "Maya" is, but there are several of them around). From a distance it looks like a huge monolith of ...
Plan A had been to climb the Eiger but as is so often the case, plan A didn't work out! Bad weather over the weekend left the Eiger plastered in snow, and the Mitellegi hut closed. Instead, we climbed the Eiger's bigger neighbours, the Monch ...
The Obergabelhorn has 2 very different sides - a huge, snowy North face and a steep cliff of red rock to the South. The fine West-East ridge that splits the two faces is one of the finest ridge traverses in the Alps with a steep ridge of ...
A couple of nice photos from this week's Alpine Progression course. Starting at the Orny hut and then a day trip to the Perrons traverse. Thanks James Thacker for the guiding and photography! ...
People often ask if I get bored repeating the same routes - not when they're as good as the Portjengrat! After 2 days dodging showers on the perfect granite around the Orny hut...
It's a record-breaking summer in the Alps with temperatures reaching 36.2 degrees in Sion - the hottest ever recorded in Switzerland. Memories of the cold, snowy winter are fading fast...
Success on the Dufourspitze this week. The second highest summit in the Alps is a tough 1800m ascent from the Monte Rosa hut, and with the difficulties lying above 4200m on the final ridge it's arguably a harder climb than Mont ...