Winter Toubkal report
Rod has just returned from a Winter Toubkal trip of ours, where he successfully reached the summit. His photo is above at the metal summit pyramid at 4167m, which was […]
Category Archives: Guides
Hidden Lake District
The sketches above look like they’ve been taken straight from an Arthur Ransome book, perhaps in the mines with Slater Bob and Squashy Hat, but in fact the drawings are […]
Winter Ice 2015
While we are looking ahead to our summer season in the Alps and further field, many people have been contacting us about ice climbing for next winter. We released our […]
Mont Fourchon summit
Read our latest snowshoeing blog about ascending the magnificent Mont Fourchon 2902m from the Grand Saint Bernard monastery. It’s a fascinating insight into this region, and explains some of the […]
Snowshoe review
Yesterday we were out filming a snowshoe test, of our most popular two brands of snowshoe, which we stock in our Windermere store. These are the MSR Lightning Ascent, and […]
Alpine Apprenticeship
Fast track your Alpine climbing career, with this month long course in the Alps. You’ll climb in Switzerland, France and Italy, over four weeks of back to back courses bolted […]
Innominata Monte Bianco
Colin and Francois are safely back from their ascent of the huge Innominata ridge on Mont Blanc. They climbed the route in a single push from the Monzino hut above […]
Alpine photo galleries
Thanks again to the guides for uploading their photos of clients, whilst being so busy working every day in the Alps. There are some great new photos in the following […]
Leave No Trace
A great photo from Merlin at the top of Mont Blanc last week, with a suitably tired looking David on the left. We plan all our trips on the guidelines […]
Emotional summit times
You can see the raw emotion in this summit photo from the Matterhorn yesterday; the joy, pride, and disbelief in Faisal’s face (left), and the happiness and determination in Ervin’s, […]
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