The fragile opening of this winter’s ski season…
Back in early November, I joined the Ski Podcast for a chat about the upcoming season, ski touring in Chamonix and more. At 7:30mins in, Iain asks me if I […]
Category Archives: Travel Writing
Oman and 3 Ultras…
Given that we’ve been in coronavirus lockdown and many of the summer trail races have been canceled this year, I look back at my last season’s bonanza’ of competitions with […]
When Katy met Severine…
It was a lucky twist of fate that before I attempted my second Patrouille Aiguille Rouge ( this time the long course) I met Severine Pont Combe in Crans Montana, […]
Missing on Pakistan’s “Killer Mountain”
Most of us who have some kind of connection with the mountaineering world would have been watching the developments on the search for the missing climbers, Tom Ballard and Daniele […]
Central America- taking the ‘ non gringo’ trail…..
Political and civil unrest in the 1980’s kept many tourists away from Central America for a long time… Then there was the eruption of Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego and civil unrest […]
Gastronomy and more in the Midi-Pyrenees
Doused in heritage with old hamlets, drowsy villages and towns studding its lush green hills, Southern France’s Occitania region only officially come into being in 2016 with the pairing of Languedoc-Roussillon and the […]
Ski Touring in Georgia
I’m just back from a ski touring trip to Georgia and it was a great few days of stunning landscapes, lovely people, amazing food- all super cheap… and, of course, fantastic […]
(Non) Chamonix Spring / Summer 2017
Chamonix spring and summer didn’t really happen for me this year. Once last year’s achilles tendentious eased off, the pain moved to the calf, with muscle tears in exactly the […]
Ski Touring on Senja Island – out now in Outdoor Fitness magazine
My article on Ski Touring on Senja Island is out in the March issue of Outdoor Fitness magazine….. ********* I’ve just returned from Senja, Norway’s second largest island for a few […]
Murren: A playground for the modern James Bond
Whilst the world waits with bated breath to find out who the next James Bond will be, I believe I stumbled upon the ideal candidate on a recent trip […]
