Went easy on the legs today, and took a cable car up to the Albigna Dam (possibly the best value eighteen Swiss Francs you could ever spend!). From there, it’s a short stroll over an area of granite cliffs, called Spazzacaldeira. We climbed the NE Ridge, which was billed as a three star classic and Read more

A wet day across much of the Alps today, but there’s still some dry rock to be found for those keen enough to sniff it out! Bouldering in La Punt Keeping out of the rain at the base of La Punt Crag Read more

Having left our mountain base of North Wales at the start of the month, we’ve been working our way south through the Swiss Alps. We’ve swum in Lake Luzern, climbed in the Sustenpass, driven over lots of mountain passes and settled here, for a bit, in the Engadine. The weather has been unsettled to say Read more

Welcome to the Mountain Lifestyle Blog! It’s a mountain based blog for documentation, inspiration and motivation. A collection of muses, adventures and thoughts that follow the life and times of Ian Martin and my mountain based lifestyle… Enjoy… Read more