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What's new in the mountains this week?: February 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Sunday, February 01, 2015. The big snow fall which Chamonix and the surrounding area has desperately waited for finally arrived. It was the sort of season saving snow fall that put down about 100cm in our garden. The immediate result of this was that Chamonix skiing stopped because of the high avalanche risk. In actual fact the conditions were very good, although there was surprisingly little depth of snow on the Mer de glace. We skied all the wsy to Chamonix. Snow ...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: Highest Hut in the Alps - Best Hut in the Alps
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What's new in the mountains this week? Friday, June 26, 2015. Highest Hut in the Alps - Best Hut in the Alps. Just spent a week climbing the peaks around and behind Monte Rosa with Chris Dovell and Lia Heisters. Our plan was to climb up to the Margherita Hut - the highest building in Europe at 4554 meters. It is best practice not to go straight there because if you do you are more or less guaranteed severe altitude sickness. On the Tuesday it was blowing quite hard. We had hoped to continue from the Marg...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: June 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Friday, June 26, 2015. Highest Hut in the Alps - Best Hut in the Alps. Just spent a week climbing the peaks around and behind Monte Rosa with Chris Dovell and Lia Heisters. Our plan was to climb up to the Margherita Hut - the highest building in Europe at 4554 meters. It is best practice not to go straight there because if you do you are more or less guaranteed severe altitude sickness. On the Tuesday it was blowing quite hard. We had hoped to continue from the Marg...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: Shooting Ibex
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What's new in the mountains this week? Tuesday, July 07, 2015. I was a mildly dissapointed that there wasn't room in the helicopter for me for the final flyover shoot. The doors had been taken off the Lama III, the camera man , Simon, had been clipped into a hard point on the helicopter and Alex the Producer had had his seat belt buckle duct taped closed. The first issue was how to get all our kit into place using a helicopter , but without scaring the Ibex off the dam. [Apparently Japanese film crew...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: Summer Alpine climbing Season 2015 kicks off
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What's new in the mountains this week? Saturday, June 20, 2015. Summer Alpine climbing Season 2015 kicks off. I was joined by Dee Anand for six days. Dee came out last year at pretty much the same time and we climbed Mt Blanc together. The only problem was we arrived on the summit in thick cloud. Well pretty much the same thing happened on this trip every time we arrived on a major summit we saw nothing. We climbed the Aguille de Van which proved to be an ideal shake down day. Although we couldn't see mu...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: August 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Saturday, August 22, 2015. Finally Lloyd gets to see a view. In July 2014 Lloyd Donavan came out to join me work six days climbing. It was without doubt the worst week of weather I had ever known since I have been guiding. So this year Lloyd came out in August with the "promise" that it couldn't be as bad as the previous year. Once back in the valley we enjoyed an afternoon climbing above Averyon. We headed up to the Gniffetti Hut in zero vis. And the Zumsteinspitze .
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What's new in the mountains this week?: May 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Thursday, May 28, 2015. Still very good skiing to be had - if you know where to look. So Alison, Yvette, Kevin and I parked the car at the Emosson Dam and started walking across the Dam at about 6.30 am. Our first challenge was to negotiate the building site . We then traversed the Dam and just beside the road dumped our training shoes and stuck on our ski boots , skis and skins. We then climbed the 800 vertical meters to the Col de la Terrace. Tuesday, May 26, 2015.
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What's new in the mountains this week?: January 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Monday, January 26, 2015. On our first day we skied off piste where James Mitchell took this remarkable photo of me on the piste at Le Tour. Finally from the summit you are treated to as a good a view of Mt Blanc as any. Friday, January 23, 2015. African Odyssey Part 1 Kilimanjaro 5894m. My Next problem was I did not have the required $50 for my Tanzanian entry visa. I was told to go out side the airport withdraw unfathonable amount of Tanzanian shillings [about...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: March 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Friday, March 20, 2015. Imagine you are in the mountains,the weather is horrible,the visibility is at times zero, the avalanche risk is high. Wouldn't it be convenient if you could just escape inside the slope and get away from it all? Well in a nut-shell this is what we did:. The Hut wasn't busy just another team of 4 French with their Guide Nicolas from St Gervais. The hut wasn't busy - just the French team and us. Monday the weather was bad. Not a great amoun...
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What's new in the mountains this week?: April 2015
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What's new in the mountains this week? Sunday, April 26, 2015. Figure of 8 ski tour around Chamonix& bit of Switzerland. Another fine week of weather allowed us to set up a very interesting beautiful ski-tour where we even met Christophe Jaquet on the top of the Col du Chardonnet. [Christophe is the translator of Mark The Mountain Guide into Marc Le Guide.]. The skiing was awful, icy and very noisy. In an attempt to find something better we ventured off-piste . This was considerably worse. Si...We climbe...
