Champagne and caffeine have been fuelling the last few days of travel! It feels like we’ve not slept in days and to be honest we barely have. Crossing time zones has given us extended days, which we’ve been living as though they were just 24hrs to try and avoid too much jet lag. America style Read more

The usual journey up to the winter mountains of Scotland at this time of year has been somewhat shaken up! After packing away my ice axes and winter gear, we left the Welsh mountains under fresh snowfall with a completely different bag of gear in the boot. A fun night at Fort Martin broke up Read more

Went for an ‘exploratory’ day up on Glyer Fach Main Cliff with Gaz today. He was keen to seek out some steeper lines and I was happy to follow. Our initial new routing plan soon changed due to lack of snow and ice, but we did come across East Gully which was well iced up Read more

Overnight, the temperature dropped again, indicating that the remaining snow in the mountains of Snowdonia should be morphing into good neve – the best snow for gully climbing. It was well past 1pm, by the time I was heading up into the mountains, but my predictions had at least been correct.  Crampons were needed from Read more

‘Soft’ would be the word to best describe the snow conditions today. Soaking wet, saturated and unfrozen, would also be fair descriptors! Utterly grim weather has blasted across the park, with rising temperatures and incessant rain on the back of a fairly strong warm wind. All in all, not quite the alpine experience I had been Read more

I had to assure the team today, that there are in fact some fantastic views from the cliff top coastal path around Moelfre on the east coast of Anglesey. Even with the low mist, the water still looked tropically green and somewhat inviting. Although it would have been a lot more inviting if it had Read more