Italian Winter Intro
Here’s a photo of our Winter Alpine Intro course in Italy on Tuesday, as they ascended to the Col de Malatra and here at the Pas Entre Deux Sauts. The […]
Category Archives: Snowshoeing
Italian snowshoeing
This weekend we ran one of our Italian Snowshoeing Weekends, and 12 clients headed up to the luxurious Bonatti Refuge above the Val Ferret, lead by Icicle UIMLA guides Mark […]
Chamonix snowshoeing
Maybe it’s the recession, maybe it’s the weakness of the pound against the euro, maybe it’s just because snowshoeing is the fastest growing winter sport, but we are seeing a […]
Vallorcine Snowshoeing
This video was taken yesterday in the Berard and Tré les Eaux valleys, of a snowshoeing group enjoying the deepest snows we have seen so far this year. The group […]
Fresh Alpine Snowfalls
After three weeks of cold dry conditions, it has been dumping snow in the Alps, and the snow is set to continue until the weekend at least. This photo was […]
Ayères great snow
The snow conditions up high (2000m and above), are quite simply stunning, at the moment. After hearing from others that the top of Grand Montets is skied out and covered […]
Alpine Christmas
Happy Christmas from Chamonix! These photos are from a spot of Boxing Day snowshoeing in Trelechamp and the Col de Montets to clear the Christmas Day hangovers. As you can […]
Avalanche Courses
This week has seen our Avalanche Awareness courses being run almost every day of the week. Participants have learnt how to use avalanche transceivers, assess the snowpack, and to choose […]
Brilliant Snowshoe Week
Kingsley from our snowshoe guiding team has just finished a week of work in the Les Contamines valley, and reports excellent conditions at the moment. He writes; “The heavy snowfalls […]
The season has started!
Today is the start of our winter season, and this week sees our first snowshoeing course guiding of the winter. Yes, the 2nd of December is early, but the snow […]
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