Posts Tagged ‘mountaineering’
Autumn Adventures
Truffle hunting season is underway in Northern Italy and I went along to Alba to discover the secrets of the truffle hunters – and taste some local wine and cheese too! Euronews: Truffle season is underway in Northern Italy and its a whole lot of fungus. I’ve also been discovering the history and the cycling…
Read MoreMissing 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 Nardi over the past week. The pair were attempting a winter ascent of the Mummery Spur on Nanga Parbat and were last heard from on…
Read MoreWinter on Mount Toubkal
My article on winter in Mount Toubkal in Morocco is out now in Adventure Travel Magazine…… you can read more about the trip here in an earlier blog post and the article for AT is here: Moroccan Mountaineering.
Read MoreMountain Craft. Filming with Arc’terxy
I’ve literally just heard that this has premiered at the Kendal Mountain Festival 2014…. Back in June I wrote about how I was helping out on a shoot by Arc’terxy for British Mountain Guides, whom they sponsor. The film “Mountain Craft” is about how guides take on all the challenges of mountain environments and manage them…
Read MoreClimbing Mont Blanc….
Just a quick update on the previous blog post…. We reached the summit of Mont Blanc yesterday morning with Fabio Levi from Dream Guides leading the way. (Fabio also guided Dwain Chambers, Richard Branson and Princess Beatrice up Mont Blanc for their various charity challenges) I surprised myself as I didn’t realise how emotional I’d feel once…
Read MoreA Trip into the Tian Shan Mountains, Interview with Liv Sansoz
She made her name on the sport climbing competition circuit, but now Liv Sansoz is stretching her horizons to bigger and bolder objectives. I spoke to her about her adventure into the heart the unknown; Tien Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, dodging rockfall and braving the harsh local regime to climb big walls. You can…
Read MoreChatting to Ueli Steck
I recently interviewed Ueli Steck for Trek and Mountain magazine. It was pretty hard work as he didn’t have much to say about anything really…. so I was glad I’d dipped into “Training for the New Alpinism” beforehand to give me a few ideas. Nonetheless, I think I dragged out a few interesting quotes from him. I particularity like…
Read MorePlaying the “Wild Woman”….
One of the (many) great thing about living in Chamonix (and being freelance- so fairly flexible) is that occasionally I’m asked to help out with some really exciting things…. A few weeks ago Caroline George, a mountain guide and owner of Into the Mountains asked me to help out with a film shoot she was the…
Read More(lack of ) Women in Alpinism
This is a subject that’s quite close to my heart so I had a really interesting time researching and talking to women who are performing at a very high level in mountaineering. Last year I attended the Piolet’ d’Or in Chamonix, where some of the most outstanding achievements in Alpinism over the last year are…
Read MoreKendal Festival 2013
Believe it or not this was my first Kendal Mountain Festival, being a “soft” southerner the Lake District is usually considered a bit of a drive for a weekend of getting rained on. But my friend wanted to recce the route for the Tour de Helvellyn later this month, so it seemed like a good…
Read MoreAlpine Skills in Chamonix…
A while ago I took part in an introductory Alpine Mountaineering course run by UCPA / Action Outdoors in Chamonix. The article on the course can now be read in Trek and Mountain magazine, and here: Alpine Skills. Since then I’ve done a couple of alpine routes with friends and the Club Alpine France and have…
Read MoreAlan Hinkes – 8000m: All 14 Summits – The Interview
I recently spoke to Alan Hinkes about his new book coming out this September – 8000m: All 14 Summits – in which he tells of his experiences of climbing them- the failures as well as the successes. Alan is the only Briton to have climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000m peaks and the 15th…
Read MoreWings of Kilimanjaro at the Lord Mayors Show
Tomorrow I will be at the Lord Mayors show, dancing on top of a float of Mount Kilimanjaro with the Tanzanian flag painted on my face in support of the Wings of Kilimanjaro challenge. Tune into BBC1 at 10.45am and you will most likely see us on the TV during the parade. I may be a climber, but…
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