Mountain Lifestyle

The Mountain Lifestyle Blog

  • In the Mist…

    In the Mist…

    Today’s expedition training involved a morning in the Cabin looking at different cultures, and local etiquette while travelling overseas. The hat is from a Pakistani mountain Porter, the Jebella was given to me from our muleteer in the Atlas mountains, and we drank customary Moroccan mint tea from glasses Clare and I bought in the… Read more

  • Fort Martin

    Fort Martin

    Took a quick trip down to Fort Martin to say ‘Happy New Year’, as I’d had to postpone my usual January visit. After a late Sunday night, I headed off down the M6 on Monday morning, stopping only briefly for a brew en-route… We had a good walk around the ‘wetlands’ area of the village… Read more

  • Cooking and Climbing

    Cooking and Climbing

    A week of all sorts once again, but not much in the way of photos… meetings, presentations and some inspiration talks in the evening from fellow mountaineers. I got to see John Porter talking about the life of Alex MacIntyre and climbing in the Himalayas followed the next day by Jon Ratcliffe describing explorations on… Read more

  • A journey of two halves

    A journey of two halves

    I’ve been away this week on a mini-expedition across Holy Island. There’s been a decent dump of snow again in the mountains, but luckily, out at the far north of Anglesey, some blue skies remained (well, for the first day at least)… I took my team of students on an ‘extended’ version of the route,… Read more

  • Sunrise/Moonset Winter Surfing

    Sunrise/Moonset Winter Surfing

    Neither Clare nor I were particularly keen on climbing out of bed in the dark this morning, but the forecast the night before suggested that there would be a small window of opportunity where light winds, good surf and blue skies might all come together for a few hours. The only snag was that those… Read more

  • Orienteering…

    Orienteering…

    Today I was helping run an orienteering event – we used new ‘techno’ markers rather than the usual ‘old fashioned’ clippers. My first job was to take the map and markers and make sure they were all set out in the right place – no pressure then! The terrain underfoot was treacherous and sodden. I… Read more

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