After yesterdays adventures, we both felt like a more chilled day today, (i.e without the hour walk in and out), so drove over to Vallorcine near the Swiss boarder. We’d both been to the crag before, but many years ago. It’s only a half an hour from Chamonix, but the valley has a completely different Read more

Funny how things turn out. We had a stroke of good luck today, which at first seemed like bad luck. Barney and I had set off to climb the 240m ‘Cocher-Cochon’ Ridge, which can be linked onto another 190m ridge traverse. However, while nattering on the walk in, we took the wrong path and ended Read more

Took a gamble on a murky morning. The first lift out of the valley confirmed that we’d hit gold as we burst through the cloud and into blindingly bright day. As the throng of climbers burst out of the lift, we could barely believe our eyes when they virtually all set off towards different cliffs Read more

A well planned (or some might say optimistic), mornings cragging to beat the incoming storms! Tim took on the gamble of a shaky weather forecast and arrived from Switzerland shortly after 9am at the car park. Clouds were already building, but the cliffs had been quick to dry from last nights downpours. We wasted no Read more

The kind of day that dreams are made of…. Imagine waking up to this view… After an comfy and warm night, the lake was mirror calm. We lay in bed watching the colours change as the sun rose. Then it was out of bed and straight into the lake for a blissful swim. One of Read more

We beat the heat this morning with a few quick climbs at Gaillands before Nick’s taxi arrived to get him back to the airport. It was way too hot to set off anywhere in the afternoon, so we waited until evening before setting off on a little bivi adventure along the famous ‘Balcon Sud’ foot Read more