Whilst there are plenty of climbers and skiers heading up the Aiguille du Midi, there are unsurprisingly not many tourists and the big Grepon car park felt deserted for early […]

It felt pretty special to be back up the Aiguille du Midi and into the Chamonix alpine again.  It’s over 7 months since the Midi was last open and it […]

The South East Couloir of the Col de la Forclaz is well know to most ski tourers travelling up and down the Arve Valley on the motorway.  It’s an impressively […]

The impressive series of North West Facing combs above Les Confins, La Clusaz, on the South side of Pointe Percée are at the heart of the massif des Aravis and […]

Last weekends snowfall produced some great snow conditions around the Mont Blanc Massif and there was still some lovely powder on shady aspects above 1bout 1850m at the Grands Montets […]

Having climbed on the sunny rock climbing crag at Servoz many times over the years, it’s only recently I’ve noticed a slightly less conventional form of climbing going on over […]

The very good stable late winter weather continues in the Northern Alps and many teams have clearly enjoyed the ascent of the Aravis Mixed classic ‘Aravicimes’ above La Clusaz over […]

Whilst it was tempting to continue skinning up through the Grands Montets this morning to ski some of the acres of great powder going spare, our heavy bags suggested otherwise.  […]

26 January 2021, Mint Ski Touring Conditions On The Croise Baulet, Aravis Lots of teams had noticed that today was THE day of the week, and what a day.   Snow […]

27 January 2021, Quality Steep Ice & Mixed At Mont Saxonnex Not many ice climbing or dry tooling crags have the same level of both visual interest and inspiration as […]

Various storm events over the Christmas holidays left the welcome present of thick blankets of fresh snow down to around 700m and covering much of the Aravis, Chablais and Mont […]

30 December 2020 – Great Snow For Ski Touring In The Aravis & Mont Blanc Massifs – Happy New Year! Plenty of recent snow down to below 500m at times […]

17 October 2020, Good Snowy Conditions Around The Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix Great weather and enjoyable snowy conditions saw plenty of teams enjoying both skiing and climbing around the Col […]

It has been an impressively snowy start to the autumn season in the Mont Blanc Massif and northern Alps in general with loads of precipitation and plenty of it falling […]

The big storm which swept the Alps at the end of last week and over the weekend had a massive impact on conditions in the mountains, especially in the Northern […]

Ok, If we said we climbed the Matterhorn by bike, it would be something of an exaggeration!…I don’t think even Scott could carry one of those outrageously heavy e. mountain […]

After the big early taste of autumn there has been a return to late summer conditions in the Alps and lots of teams have been out enjoying some high alpine […]

This weekend in stark contrast to the last one was characterised by Grand Beau temps – lovely sunny late summer weather yes, but still with some remaining snow from the […]

4 September, Pollux, Half Breithorn Traverse, Lyskamm Nose, Matterhorn Another really enjoyable alpine day up high thanks to the incredibly efficient and impressively expensive lift from Zermatt to Kleine Matterhorn…CHF104 […]

It felt like this action packed Chamonix 2 day introduction to alpine mountaineering started at the end of the summer and finished at the start of autumn.  Thursday was hot, […]