Vertical Frontiers news...
We have had some unstable weather out here in the alps over the past few days, with some big clouds brewing in the afternoon with potential thunderstorms over the mountains. I was a bit apprehensive about the amount of snow that might be on Mont Blanc, mainly worried...
I've just had a couple of great days around the Torino refuge in Italy. A few teams out and about climbing the classic mountaineering routes including the Marbrees, Aiguille d' Entreves, Tour Ronde. The north face of the Tour Ronde was getting climbed quite a bit as...
I started my 2016 summer alpine season nice and early, with a five day visit from friend and client Andy. Andy came with a very open "lets se what the weather brings" attitude, but we were pretty keen to get up into the high mountains and give Andy some mixed climbing...
Autumn is a great time to climb in the alps, quiet and cooler than the main summer season, it's perfect for ice and mixed climbs plus the classic mountaineering routes. We're running a couple of "open" trips as well as private guiding throughout the month of October...
It's the end of the season out here in the Alps. The lifts in Chamonix have been shutting this week, and today is the final day for the Grand Montet. Not that we're lacking in snow, and in fact as I write this there's a few inches of fresh snow right down to valley...
Ah well. You can't do much about the weather. After fine weather during the preceding week, and good weather and conditions for the first PDG race start it didn't quite work out for us. Misha, Ivor and I travelled over on the Friday to Zermatt, got our kit checked,...
Last year I guided Pete and his friend up Mont Blanc on skis, and this year Pete got in touch as he was keen for another short two day adventure. We kept an eye on the weather and hatched various plans, including a fast Haute Route and a traditional "purists Haute...
Our original plan was to head to Zermatt for a week of 4000m peak bagging along the Swiss/Italian frontier ridge. The terrain along there is pretty complicated however and the weather forecast we had wasn't looking too helpful with strong winds forecast all week and...
