With a showery day forecast and feeling somewhat fatigued after yesterdays endurance event, we drove down the valley to go for a swim in the lake. The rain didn’t look like it was going to materialise, so we decided to take a leisurely trip along the Via Ferrata at Passy. The brochure that we’d seen… Read more

The exit from the ice tunnel top of the Aiguille du Midi station onto the famous snow arete, never fails to impress. This morning at 7am was no exception. Once down on the main glacier, we left the world behind and hiked off across the crevassed plateau, towards the Rock Pyramide of Mt Blanc du… Read more

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