Route: La Piste Oubliée, Brevent South Face, Chamonix Rock Climbing  Grade & Length, 200m, 5 pitches, 6a+, 6a, 6a=, 6b, 6a Equipment:  Bolted runners and belays, a rack not necessary […]

Acqua Concert is an excellent 370m 6a rock climb on the Aiguille du Van, 2572m above the Emosson Dam just across the Swiss border at the NE end of the […]

Despite yesterday’s downpours and 5-10cms of fresh snow in the high mountains, this morning was a perfect mid summer alpine dawn with near perfect snow conditions along the beautiful high […]

22 July 2021, Traverse of Les Perrons & Snowy Matterhorn Condtions The great summer weather continues, for another couple of days with the forecast for more mixed and stormy weather […]

6 July 2021, Sylvie Phobie, Barberine & Too Windy on Mont Blanc Kev and Mark climbed from Tete Rousse to Gouter Hut in crampons all the way with a liberal […]

The Emosson Dam café has some of the best roadside views going of the Chamonix North Face club.  The traverse of the barrage marks the start of another adventure on […]

The parking above the Lac de Moiry is not your average car park.  For a start it’s already over 2350m and those unacclimatised may notice a slight shortness of breath […]

There is something really special about a pre-dawn alpine start, and a couple of hours using headtorches on what is very nearly the longest day of the year, meant that […]

Whilst summer weather and temperatures have finally arrived in the Alps, early season snow volume on the glaciers around the Mont Blanc Massif & Northern Alps in general, remains excellent, […]

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 […]